bizarroland

I’m just saying that the last time this worked, it only made things worse.

This is the same shit that everyone started posting back in 2017 talking about how we need a plague, how we need a new plague. There’s too many people.

It also conveniently overlooks the massive issue of privacy in the first place.

It’s not a bad thing to live in a world where you can’t be blackmailed because everyone already knows everything about you.

It could be theoretically utopian to live in a world where privacy is not an issue.

The gigantic fucking pink dragon in the room is that the people who have the power over the information that is made public, want to use it to make money off of you in every single facet of your life.

If they could strip mine your grandmother for the calcium in her bones, and make a penny off of it, (that is, a penny more than her current remaining economic index of output into the economy) her ass would be tossed into the fucking meat grinder.

When there is some sort of ruling body that cares more about the happiness of every single person on the planet more than they care about making money or having power, and those are the only people that have access to your personal data, then yes.

But right now, people are people, and every person is evil to some degree, there’s no value for you or me in giving them unfettered access to every aspect of our existence.

We are not robots. We are not automatons. We are not rational. We are not reliable. We are not repeatable. We are not resources to be exploited. We are not cogs in machines. We are not grist for the mill.

We are human fucking beings with the exact same intrinsic value and worth to our very existence as every other living human being on this planet, regardless of every other possible situation that exists.

To protect our intrinsic value, we must have privacy and autonomy. And we cannot have autonomy without privacy, and we cannot have privacy without autonomy.

The other real tradeoff is that it doesn’t rely on rare earth materials in order to function. Sodium is incredibly abundant and can easily be filtered out of seawater for all the world’s needs for the next thousand years.

It’s also theoretically less toxic and less likely to explode, and even though for now it costs more than lithium, what with lithium having had 20-some odd years of development behind it, the price will come down because the raw materials to make it are abundant and cheap.