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.

  • rbn
    2·
    1 year ago

    How often do these vote cycles occur? I would argue that most distuptive changes will make things worse before they change to the better.

    Ending capitalism, forgiving all debt etc. will lead to huge chaos in the short and medium term. Even thought in the long term, it might turn into a much better system, you’d need a lot of time to rebuild society and people to see the positive in it.

    I think that’s also an issue of today’s democracies. If you’re elected, you have just a relatively short period of time before the next election. If you aim for big reforms, you might be still in the ‘make things worse’ phase after the first legislation period and people will vote for an opposing party. They undo everything you did, again making things worse without ever achieving their own vision.

      • rbn
        2·
        1 year ago

        Then, I think your best chances of survival would be being as invisible as possible. Only react to urgent issues, don’t address systematic issues and if you’re forced to give a statement, remain vague and unclear. It’s not great for society in the longterm but I think any disruptive change will make people confused, annoyed, insecure or angry. Even though they get used to the change quickly or even like it, instant voting will be your death sentence.

        Another strategy may be to distract people from issues. Sport events, drugs, parties, censorship. Keep up the illusion of everything going well while the world goes down the drain.