...preliminarily though, I would like to suggest that 1) significant change in global dynamics is exactly what is on the table, and is intrinsic to the 'system', and 2) I'm skeptical that businesses are capable of achieving this sort of autonomy from the laws of supply and demand
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Replying to @EBBerger @neuralshroud and
this, but also: things aren't completely unified because top-down control is an extremely difficult informational problem (the economic calculation problem hasn't been solved, nor will it)
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @EBBerger and
why won't corporations make exit a hell? because they can't know how.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @EBBerger and
Making exit a hell is trivial. We already have bureaucracy as a proof-of-concept.
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Replying to @neuralshroud @EBBerger and
and yet people regularly emigrate? hell is supposed to mean something.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @neuralshroud and
I may have misunderstood, but I don't think Neural is saying that exit is currently a hell, just that it could be made so. There are certainly contemporary examples of regimes choosing to do such a thing.
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Replying to @JinnAndSoda @cyborg_nomade and
Sure, but in the realm of the pwork thought experiment these regimes have a monetary incentive -- if you disallow exit, you remove incentives for entrance, which means less inflowing capital, and thus stagnation & bankruptcy. So it's in the realm of possibility, expected even
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Replying to @EBBerger @cyborg_nomade and
which might sound wonky and detached from reality, but if we look to stuff like Estonia's e-government & eventual subscription models, the question begins immediately relevant since the profit motive is at play.
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Replying to @EBBerger @cyborg_nomade and
Regimes can. of course, obstruct Exit options. The question is whether such policy choices can be systematically selected against. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @EBBerger and
... U/Acc pessimists and the Alt-Right are perversely united in wanting to promote the credible functionality of Exit suppression.
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... "The Exit delusion" is already approaching the status of an Alt-Right meme. It's not hard to see why. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @EBBerger and
... If Exit is impractical, stand and fight is the only thing left.
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