Those of us who pay attention are very aware. The usual suspects remain ignorant to their reality, as usual.

Don’t split the party

Magnetic tape. Datacenters use it for long term storage.

Hmm, fair

Based on how people voted

Revolution only succeeds when there is broad support.

That’s exactly what I’m saying

~50% of an armed populace will fight for an oppressive regime. It’s not an effective way to deter governmental takeover.

Yeah, therapy is not a viable solution for broad societal issues

I figured using “government” would result in some disconnect, but I’m not sure what else I would call a centralized authority responsible for making and carrying out societal decisions.

Anyways, it doesn’t matter if I’m part of the government. The issue remains.

Only if there’s a viable path to transition to that state, and it’s a stable state. It could also only be a local minimum. The effect you’re describing is real, but there’s no guarantee that it will lead to your proposed societal system, and furthermore there’s no guarantee that the effect is deterministic and will necessarily lead to the same solution unless it is the only solution.

Right, but I could not get a job unless it’s first been created by the government. What if the government doesn’t want to create a job that’s necessary? What about jobs that aren’t necessary, but are still desirable? If I have artistic skill, would I get an appropriate amount of work vouchers? Would skill factor in at all, or only time spent working? What is my invcentive to be efficient if skill is not a factor? If skill is a factor, who determines what “skill” is? Do we vote to make 10 furniture maker jobs and one “expert furniture maker” job with appropriate salaries?

You don’t have to answer all of those, I’m mostly just saying that this would result in a LOT of centralized control, which would have to be handled with a large amount of nuance, and that deciding these things by vote isn’t likely to work (see also, the most recent election).

All work would be paid for? Who decides what “work” is?

Mostly that the central planning authority gets to decide which work is meaningful enough to get paid for

Interesting. That could work. Feels a little draconian though.

I’ve been thinking of starting some sort of group to help with that goal-- would you be interested? I’m not sure what we could do, but I want to do something, you know? I figure the best impact I can have is to convince other people that I mostly agree with to adopt this approach, which is what I envision the group could help with.

Agreed 100%. I’m glad we’re collectively starting to realize this. It’s a bit late, but hopefully it’ll still do good.

I feel like one obvious answer is “stop being so eager to alienate cis straight white men”

because that helps reduce “othering” a group

Which is, ironically, what the pronoun-stating thing was supposed to avoid. Personally I agree that it’s not really necessary, and that it actually is a form of compelled speech.

LVs would have their own problems-- if I do work for someone else, can they just create LVs to give to me? Do they get to create however many they want?

Why are you centrist? To clarify, if you make your political decisions yourself but almost always happen to align with one of the parties, I would consider you in that party rather than a centrist.

Mental health focused communities exascerbate their members’ issues