Although this definitely deserves more thought, instinctively I agree with u/SoctaticMethod1, and it's along the lines of what I was going to say.
That which is given has no value. Is the journey or the destination more important?
There are all sorts of philosophical questions to be asked and, no, I'm not trying to dodge, or say the genie is lying or anything like that. But I can see where literal and truthful "improvement in ever single way" actually still isn't good for people.
You can't change people, and society is based on people. "A perfect society" would largely require a perfect people, so what we're talking about here is rewriting people.
Also, if we want to get metaphysical, is paradise on Earth, or in Heaven? I'm not really qualified to speak on that, but I can say I've seen what the people trying to make Heaven on Earth turn both Earth and the concept of Heaven into. I think it's better to keep them separate, or you end up destroying both.
I want the people to strive for a better society. Taking out some of the steps just doesn't feel right, and it's also basically what the communists do, that ends in disaster every time. Now, I admit, a perfectly valid rebuttal to my stance would be that maybe I just don't have the imagination to imagine a perfect or better world. Maybe I'm too caught up in the way things currently are, the way people currently are. Leftists hit me with that all the time when talking about communism, taxes, poverty, what have you, and there's some merit to that. If you have an actual magic genie, yeah, maybe you could solve some things, and it's not worth getting stuck in our current framework. Maybe my thinking is wrong on this.
But, still, instinctively this just feels like a cheat, and I don't even think it would be good for people in the long wrong. Flipping a switch and fixing society? You're either taking away free will and rewiring people, which I find abhorrent, or they won't have learned anything and, in another one hundred years, we'll have spiraled back into degeneracy the likes of which humanity has never seen. And I do mean never.
People need to figure things out on their own. That's a bit part of why we're here.
Although this definitely deserves more thought, instinctively I agree with u/SoctaticMethod1, and it's along the lines of what I was going to say.
That which is given has no value. Is the journey or the destination more important?
There are all sorts of philosophical questions to be asked and, no, I'm not trying to dodge, or say the genie is lying or anything like that. But I can see where literal and truthful "improvement in ever single way" actually still isn't good for people.
You can't change people, and society is based on people. "A perfect society" would largely require a perfect people, so what we're talking about here is rewriting people.
Also, if we want to get metaphysical, is paradise on Earth, or in Heaven? I'm not really qualified to speak on that, but I can say I've seen what the people trying to make Heaven on Earth turn both Earth and the concept of Heaven into. I think it's better to keep them separate, or you end up destroying both.
I want the people to strive for a better society. Taking out some of the steps just doesn't feel right, and it's also basically what the communists do, that ends in disaster every time. Now, I admit, a perfectly valid rebuttal to my stance would be that maybe I just don't have the imagination to imagine a perfect or better world. Maybe I'm too caught up in the way things currently are, the way people currently are. Leftists hit me with that all the time when talking about communism, taxes, poverty, what have you, and there's some merit to that. If you have an actual magic genie, yeah, maybe you could solve some things, and it's not worth getting stuck in our current framework. Maybe my thinking is wrong on this.
But, still, instinctively this just feels like a cheat, and I don't even think it would be good for people in the long wrong. Flipping a switch and fixing society? You're either taking away free will and rewiring people, which I find abhorrent, or they won't have learned anything and, in another one hundred years, we'll have spiraled back into degeneracy the likes of which humanity has never seen. And I do mean never.
People need to figure things out on their own. That's a bit part of why we're here.