How else are you going to scare pre-modern people into doing the right thing when nobody's watching?
Hey, the real version is coming soon. Just wait until they implement Digital ID, followed shortly by digital currency. Then everything you do, everywhere, can be tracked and you will be assigned a social credit score (it won't be called that though). Fail to take the knee when it's made clear to you you must do so, and you will be cut off from being able to buy and sell, just like the Canadian truckers. Or Russia. You're going to do what they want you to do, but it will be an AI watching over your shoulder and not an invisible sky fairy.
How else are you going to scare pre-modern people into doing the right thing when nobody's watching?
Hey, the real version is coming soon. Just wait until they implement Digital ID, followed shortly by digital currency. Then everything you do, everywhere, can be tracked and you will be assigned a social credit score (it won't be called that though). Fail to take the knee when it's made clear to you you must do so, and you will be cut off from being able to buy and sell, just like the Canadian truckers. Or Russia. You're going to do what they want you to do, but it will be an AI watching over your shoulder and not an invisible sky fairy.
I'm now a Luddite
Daily reminder the luddites were strikers doing praxis, not technophobic