George Hotz proposes creating a 24/7/365 burning man-like city with free drugs and free basic necessities to attract and serve the unhoused.
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George Hotz proposes creating a 24/7/365 burning man-like city with free drugs and free basic necessities to attract and serve the unhoused.
How does he plan to enforce that, I wonder? It's easy enough to keep kids from migrating "in" but what about children born in wireheading city?
Does he plan to prohibit that through forced birth control + forced abortion? He did mention "birth control will also be available for free" -- maybe by "available" he means "required." Or will he just "ship out" any children residents have within some time frame, and drop them at an orphanage in the "real world"?
Good questions.
Here's my template for plans like this:
10there's some terrible line that, once you cross it, you're fucked20and yet people invariably drift across that line for different reasons30it's awful! it hurts our hearts to see it40someone draws a new line at great individual and social cost to deal with the horror50goto 10odds are that anyone choosing to live there is not likely to be a "fit" parent in the eyes of CPS so the orphanage idea is likely the outcome.
This is really the long and short of it. SF closed down a clean use space after the pandemic and the end result is now the people doing drugs are doing it less safely, and they're doing it out in the open and shitting on sidewalks. If you don't do some form of harm reduction or other aid, they just do the shit in the streets. If you throw them in jail, they're a massive sink on the system.
I'm not sure a burning man city is the answer, but things have gotten pretty bad, and incarceration and shuffling people around hasn't done shit. Time to get creative.
Oddly enough Star Trek Deep Space 9 had a 2 part story set in 2024 where the homeless are put in “Sanctuary Districts” away from the rest of society. This proposal sounds disturbingly similar.
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What could go wrong?
No one needs government handouts. No one needs to have his income confiscated. This is such a stupid communist distraction. It's an invitation to slavery.
We have hard and real money and it's time to encourage other people to hustle by innovation instead of throwing away their humanity.
Terrible program. Terrible idea. It will be used to farm humans, slavery, sexual abuse of children and worse. It's no good.
From a Jeremy Bentham view, it might be cheaper and improve the quality of life for citizens, but I agree with
How about no drugs and basic necessities. Maybe it can turn into a big support city.
that's not a "support city" it's just a city
that does seem preferable to this idea but not exactly novel
It used to be that he who gives to a beggar does him and himself a bad favor.
These days, he who gives to a beggar is celebrated for being so generous. And non-profit organizations who are supposed to fix the problem attract more donations the worse the "problem" becomes.
I would not put my nose in that place 🤠
Nothing is free.
Alternative proposal for the 1%. Fund people like this all over the US