I've lived in a couple places which had red light cameras. What happened in those areas was people stopped running red lights (to an unsafe degree such that collisions at intersections with the cameras markedly increased) so revenue from tickets for running red lights dropped to zero. At which point the governments pulled the cameras out because their maintenance cost exceeded the revenue they were getting from them.
There are second and third-order effects from heavy-handed law enforcement that governments fail to consider and that they may not like.
At which point the governments pulled the cameras out because their maintenance cost exceeded the revenue they were getting from them.
This is the part that keeps me from being swallowed up in despair. That there's just enough merit behind the scenes to allow new features to fail and be withdrawn.
I am totally against this kind of high tech enforcement. The reasons are many, but mostly that it creates more problems than it solves.
There are two silver linings in our modern Woke oligarchy:
The DMV Americans that will be running the bureaucratic machine will be too incompetent to do so effectively, and the competent ones will be too afraid to criticize them
Our oligarchs running the technocratic machine aren't strong or moral enough leaders to receive loyalty from their subjects without needing to buy it, and they are too cheap to buy it
Ultimately in the medium term I expect society to start looking a lot like Latin America: laws will be "flexible", and as long as you don't draw too much attention to yourself or piss your neighbors off too much you'll mostly be able to buy your way out of trouble with the local law.
Familiarize yourself with this interview with John McAfee about how to survive as a drug runner in Central and South America and consider the very real possibility that your future looks very much like this.
Familiarize yourself with this interview with John McAfee about how to survive as a drug runner in Central and South America and consider the very real possibility that your future looks very much like this.
I've lived in a couple places which had red light cameras. What happened in those areas was people stopped running red lights (to an unsafe degree such that collisions at intersections with the cameras markedly increased) so revenue from tickets for running red lights dropped to zero. At which point the governments pulled the cameras out because their maintenance cost exceeded the revenue they were getting from them.
There are second and third-order effects from heavy-handed law enforcement that governments fail to consider and that they may not like.
This is the part that keeps me from being swallowed up in despair. That there's just enough merit behind the scenes to allow new features to fail and be withdrawn.
I am totally against this kind of high tech enforcement. The reasons are many, but mostly that it creates more problems than it solves.
There are two silver linings in our modern Woke oligarchy:
Ultimately in the medium term I expect society to start looking a lot like Latin America: laws will be "flexible", and as long as you don't draw too much attention to yourself or piss your neighbors off too much you'll mostly be able to buy your way out of trouble with the local law.
Familiarize yourself with this interview with John McAfee about how to survive as a drug runner in Central and South America and consider the very real possibility that your future looks very much like this.
...Did you forget the link?
it's there but maybe it was filtered?
https://archive.is/6Iww4