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 @cyborg_nomade and
well, my point was that in a competitive model we might expect a regime to suppress Exit, but this would burn them out pretty quickly. So personally I find the idea of exit suppression ultimately dubious, aside from the issue of efficiency via market sorting (shorter term issues)
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Replying to @EBBerger @cyborg_nomade and
Without wanting to get you into trouble, we agree.
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"U/Acc gets spanked hard eventually" is the (definitive) NRx prediction.
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