Not only will you die, but so will your entire family and your pets.

This is so you are incentivised to stay alive.

Rules:

  • You cannot refuse this, refusal is also instant death, along with everyone mentioned above.

  • You have absolute authority over the entire world.

  • Every person has a non-removable brain implant that allows them to vote “Approve”, “Disapprove”, or “Abstain from vote”. These are completely immune to hacking.

  • Every above age 18 can vote.

  • You must maintain 50% + 1 vote of “Approve”, exactly 50% Approve / 50% Disapprove still means death for you. “Abstain” is not a vote means it isn’t counted.

  • The effects don’t apply until at least 50% of the population has voted. If you get more 51% disapproval, you’ll still live as long as theres less than 50% of the votes submitted.

  • If someone dies before voting, their vote automatically becomes “Disapprove” (So you don’t get any ideas of committing genocides)

  • Once a vote is submitted, it stays valid even if the person died. A person could also make their implant automatically change vote if they die. So someone could have their vote be set at “Approve” but becomes “Disapprove” upon death.

  • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    21·
    3 days ago

    Easy. High taxes on the rich and spend that money to give good universal social programs, and also avert climate catastrophe. The tiny fraction of rich people will disapprove but screw them anyways.

    The hard part is getting the political will to do the obvious right thing when politics is controlled by the rich.

  • BillSchofield@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Not what I would do, but the safest way is to villify then execute small and unpopular minorities (in the minority/majority sense) and then cater to the monolithic block that emerges. Super evil but it works.

  • djsoren19@yiffit.net
    91·
    2 days ago

    If I have absolute control of the media, this seems ridiculously simple. I’ve no interest in material possessions or the hoarding of wealth, so I’ll implement large scale tax reform designed to reduce our current levels of income inequality, kill oil subsidies in favor of green tech investment, truly universal worldwide healthcare, and mandated percentage worker ownership of companies.

    The problems of our world are manufactured by those currently in power in order to enrich themselves. While it might take a few generations to fix the communities plagued by religious toxicity with widespread access to a good, secular education, I truly believe that limiting the capitalist’s ability to rape and pillage would be enough to maintain widespread popular support. Provided, of course, that those capitalists can’t use their control of the media to discredit and slander me to the point people vote against their own self-interests.

  • bizarroland@fedia.io
    161·
    3 days ago

    I would automatically forgive every debt of every person in the bottom 75% of income.

    I would then institute a new currency that cannot be exchanged for the old currency and devalue all currently existing currency in the world.

    I would replace all of those currencies with a credit, where one credit is worth one hour of unskilled labor, meaning that the minimum wage would be set to one credit.

    Developing new skills and providing that labor at higher skill levels would give you federally mandated minimum multipliers of your minimum wage.

    Worldwide I would make it a rule that the C level executives of any company are directly personally responsible for the actions of their company as a whole, meaning that if a mining company chooses to disregard safety measures and get one of their workers killed then all of the executives of that company are guilty of manslaughter and will be tried as if they personally slaughtered that man.

    Every company that is currently traded on the stock market would have to have external oversight so that they cannot monopolize their field.

    Every company that utilizes software must submit their software to a federally secured library with all of the source code and all of the steps needed to recreate their software.

    This will be given copyright protections for 21 years, after which time the code will become public domain.

    All copyright will be set to 21 years from the date of its creation.

    All nuclear weapons will be destroyed and converted into fuel for nuclear reactors.

    Every person currently in prison who did not commit a violent act will be automatically pardoned.

    Any person who did commit a violent act and who has more than 10 years left on their sentence will be immediately executed.

    The maximum amount of time a person can be incarcerated will be capped at 10 years. If a person does a crime that requires incarceration of greater than 10 years time they will be executed.

    If a prisoner participates in a work program they will receive the minimum wage that they deserve based off of their qualifications.

    I would also abolish all health insurance and instead transition to single-payer across the world. All hospitals will be nationalized and required to achieve a set minimum capability to be certified as a hospital.

    I would forgive all debts between nations and remove all tariffs as this is now my world and there are no debts between my Nations and there are no tarrifs between my Nations.

    Every country or collective will be given the absolute right to operate with its own presidents and leaders and groupings as they so choose without molestation from other people or groups.

    In the event of a dispute there will be a world Court and you will argue your side with the world Court and if they are unable to make a decision then it will be given to general vote to decide the outcome.

    Being as that there are no officially established Nations anymore, people will not require visas. You will have a license to operate a vehicle and the freedom to go wherever you are capable of going in the entire world.

    I would also demilitarize the world to a reasonable degree and spread out small militias to act as a policing force.

    Of the police would no longer have qualified immunity in America or anywhere in the world and every police person would carry a camera on them at all times when they are performing their duties.

    Turning off the camera or having a malfunction in that camera that is not immediately reported while you are interacting with a member of the public will be grounds for severe consequences up to and including execution.

    After that I would just steer the course we haven’t landed on Mars yet we’ve not begun to colonize the solar system we haven’t repaired the damage to the planet there would be several special interest groups established to achieve those things and if despite my utopian concept the majority of the world decides that I’m not worth it than it the very least I’ll have made enough positive impact to be satisfied with the outcome.

      • bizarroland@fedia.io
        2·
        2 days ago

        You raise a good point.

        I think what might be a better idea would be to take every person who is slated for execution and they are allowed a 5-minute clip but onto some sort of public broadcast where the world gets to decide. They can argue the reasons why they should be forgiven and the prosecutor will explain their crimes in great detail.

        Then the world gets to vote and majority rules. That would help me be seen as a merciful dictator so it’s a win-win all the way around. Plus it would also help me weed out people that were wrongly convicted or people where the law is too strict for the crime.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      3 days ago

      I fear the transitional period implied by some of these changes will be what gets you. You have unlimited authority; you can’t just snap your fingers like a genie, you’ll need to implement these policies. These things take time, and they’ll cause chaos and uncertainty, followed by confusion as people adjust. If you’re not careful with your rollout, you risk waves of disapproval.

      • bizarroland@fedia.io
        2·
        2 days ago

        You raise a good point. I would fill that time with making worldwide broadcast at least on the weekly like a fireside chat where I would talk to people and field questions from a twitch interface and do my best to alleviate the worries and fears and to take in the concerns of the people just like you who are afraid that I will cause more harm than good and that way I can get the feedback that I would need to be the best possible lifelong emperor of the planet.

        I would also remind everyone that I didn’t choose this it was thrust upon me and so I want to work with everyone to make the world as good as it possibly can be.

        And this also raises another point, I would make it so that news is not protected free speech unless it reports on the facts as best as it knows them.

        The minute you start throwing opinion pieces up and calling it “news” with the underscore objective to be to get as many viewers as possible so that you can maximize your advertising revenue then you would become liable for slander and other possible negative consequences to your actions.

        Probably not execution though, lol.

        Maybe more like being decertified as a “news” organization and not being allowed to broadcast for a period of time.

        I would also use my authority to make ads on the internet illegal, and probably set up an international shopping mart where companies can hawk their wares without manipulative algorithms attempting to coerce people into buying things they don’t want.

        More like an international Bazaar.

  • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Establish a system where voting Approve provides tangible personal benefits, Abstaining remains a safe, comfortable default, and Disapproving results in immediate personal drawbacks. Maintain a decent standard of living, encourage open non-violent expression, and quickly address problems so people rarely feel compelled to choose Disapprove. By making Approval the path to greater prosperity, Abstention harmless, and Disapproval costly, the majority either Approve or simply do nothing, ensuring that discontent never coherently organizes into a mass disapproval large enough to threaten your life.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    3 days ago

    Step 1. Ask the world for 1 year decision amnesty while I get my bearings.
    Step 2. Bring together the different government run hacking groups and direct them to obtain the root certificates the devices use to communicate back to the tallying servers.
    Step 3. Rewrite all death votes to be approved.
    Step 4. Scrub the internet of this entire thing. Because if it isn’t on the internet then did it really happen?
    Step 5. What world leader? You all vote for your own national governments.
    Step 6. Return to be a nobody because fuck that pressure.

  • figjam@midwest.socialEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    How much control of the media do I have? Will fox news be all “president figjam helped raise 2 million people out of poverty with YOUR tax dollars!”

    How frequent are the votes?

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      You have absolute control of the media. However, keep in mind, if you start censoring things, people might not like it and “disapprove” of you, and if you have 50% disapprove and you’re dead.

      Votes are basically always active.

      Basically like how social media has your “status” set like your mood being happy or sad. This is similar, but Approve or Disapprove.

      Once its set, it remains that way until changed. But people could also set it up so that it auto switch to “Disapprove” upon dying, as a dead man switch, to disincentivise you from killing people. And if someone dies before interacting with the voting system, its an automatic “Disapprove”. (Basically, don’t start doing massacres or your disapproval will rise)

      Basically, you live as long as less than 50% are “Disapprove” or if there are less than 50% of the votes submitted.

      “Abstain” doesn’t count towards the approve/disapprove numbers, but does count towards the vote percentage. (Example: If you have 25% disapprove, 20% approve, 5% abstain, and the remaining have not yet interacted with the voting system, total vote count is 50%, and your disapproval (of those who voted) is higher, so you are dead.

      TLDR: There are no election cycles, you are constantly judged.

  • Zonetrooper@lemmy.world
    111·
    3 days ago

    May I point out this entire question is fundamentally broken.

    I have absolute authority over the entire world? I order everyone to vote ‘Approve’ on me. “But wait!” you say, “You can’t just order them to do that! They’ll never listen to you!”

    And that could be absolutely true. But if it is, then my authority is no longer absolute - in which case, no course I take will work, because anyone can elect to not follow it. I can’t compel any group of people - nations, religions, corporations, the local elderly golfer’s association - to do anything. And the second they realize that, they’ll break off to pursue their own agendas.

    At most, I can select one broad coalition who I think will work with me, and try to leverage a smaller group. But now we’re just back to good ol’ factionalism, and that’s not a long-term winning solution.

  • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
    132·
    3 days ago

    Any non-corrupt politician would be unstoppable if they honestly attempted to strive for at least a few of these:

    • election reform
    • single payer
    • abolish private medical insurance and fold those companies into a 100% taxpayer funded (Single Payer) national healthcare system much like they have in Canada and South Korea. (Anywhere else doesn’t have true Single Payer.)
    • repeal Citizens United
    • bring back Glass Steagall
    • anti-genocide/ cutting off the infinite money tap that the AIPAC/IDF command
    • prosecute Israel (and the politicians that enabled them in the US should also be tried in front of The Hague) for crimes against humanity
    • prosecute George W. Bush and company for the Iraq war. Imprison them for the rest of their lives.
    • publicly execute Jon Bolton in the most brutal way possible using weapons from arms manufacturers that he openly works for 😅
    • student loan reform (without bullshit means testing)
    • reparations
    • stop spying on US citizens and dissolve the CIA/NSA/FBI’s conflict of interest with ALL tech companies in the US. Facebook is a DIRECT feed to the NSA and law enforcement and that needs to stop not be ramped up under the guise of “protecting us from terrorism” like Kamala asserts and ends up being used solely to go after whistle blowers and protesters.
    • break up the conglomerate farms that our government actively encourages to put poison in our food that they then feed to only poor children in our schools while the rich kids get organic diets.
    • reform the FDA and USDA (compare the list of banned chemicals in the EU to here and tell me that someone isn’t greasing someone’s palms in exchange for POISONING us with roundup, etc)
    • police DEmilitarization
    • stop writing blank checks to the military industrial complex under the guise of “helping”, sending vast sums of money that would EASILY pay for Single Payer to be burned in futile proxy wars with Russia
    • force car companies to make self driving car technology open source and introduce rigorous standards and best practices for this software that is responsible for human lives
    • break up the airline industry
    • break up the banking industry
    • audit the Fed
    • disallow Black Rock and other conglomerates from owning homes
    • disallow real estate purchases from non US citizens
    • disallow real estate price fixing and penalize the companies that did it
    • make college free for EVERYONE and raise taxes on the rich to pay for it
    • force NVidia to open source CUDA/ZLUDA
    • decriminalize marijuana
    • fund a high speed rail system in the US
    • reform the Supreme Court and bring Clarence Thomas up on treason charges under the penalty of death
    • immigrants no longer in cages (rather than ramping up putting immigrants in cages and just marketing it differently)
    • end the embargo on Cuba
    • penalize countries and corporations financially for pollution. Make it prohibitively expensive for Temu, Amazon, SHEIN, and Alibaba to ship their goods over oceans on the worst polluting internal combustion engines on earth: container ships. In reality, it was our Clintonite, globalist Democrats (the good guys!) that actively encouraged corporations to manufacture overseas.
    • reward other countries and corporations financially for green policies
    • dissolve the two party system and bring the DNC and GOP up on treason charges
    • give Edward Snowden immunity for his “crimes” and protect him as a whistle blower
    • fund the fediverse and other decentralized technologies that have a direct positive effect on democracy
    • socialize and break up Amazon into twenty companies
    • open source and decentralize Twitter for the crime of election interference
    • force Amazon, Google, Alphabet, OpenAI, Meta, and Apple to open source at least a large chunk of their tech stacks
    • force pharmaceutical industry to open source their tax-payer funded research and products that were created using government funding
    • socialize Google (for the crime of election interference and others)
    • fund RISC-V chip technologies instead of closed source technologies to bring chip manufacturing back to the US
    • socialize Meta (for the crime of election interference and other crimes)
    • Taniwha420@lemmy.world
      20·
      3 days ago

      50% of THE WORLD. You’re dead because I don’t believe anywhere near 50% of China or India cares about most of this list. This is a list of American issues.

      • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
        131·
        3 days ago

        My list was preconceived in a comment I made a while back so you caught me there. But as I went back through the list , 80% of what I was proposing would instantly make the rest of the world a better place because the US is basically the villain of the world.

        The Jon Bolton execution alone would inspire parades across the Middle East.

        • Taniwha420@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          That’s true. I mean, I’d welcome all those reforms. Still, at an political level, I’m not sure 50% of the world is politically savvy enough to actual appreciate what these reforms would do.

          At some level I’m pretty cynical about the ‘average’ voter. I don’t think it would be possible to come out of this alive. Too many people want what immediately benefits them, not what would make a better world.

          For example, the majority of the world is worried about climate change, but it seems like a small minority that would actually vote for useful reforms if it meant they would have to adjust their lives.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
          5·
          3 days ago

          The Jon Bolton execution alone would inspire parades across the Middle East.

          We’d first need to know who he is, so who is that guy and what did he do?

    • Bear@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      Wouldn’t even get 10% of American approval. Truly wild and unhinged.

  • TheV2@programming.dev
    4·
    2 days ago

    I’d rather die. But while we’re at it, I’ll make it my goal to get everyone to vote against me. The world will at least have a taste of unity against a common enemy for once. It shouldn’t be difficult anyway.

  • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Go the Warhammer 40K emperor route: set up nukes worldwide, triggered by a pacemaker on me. I die, the world dies.