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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Replying to @Outsideness @EBBerger and
... "The Exit delusion" is already approaching the status of an Alt-Right meme. It's not hard to see why. ...
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... If Exit is impractical, stand and fight is the only thing left.
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