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Author Topic: Reputation based economies are dystopian hellholes  (Read 7697 times)

oggsmash

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Re: Reputation based economies are dystopian hellholes
« Reply #90 on: May 06, 2021, 10:36:01 PM »
  I think it is possible to move and be lost.  You will have to move to another country, not be a social media type, and maybe change your name though.  I think doing those things is easier right now than it has ever been.  Now, if you have to work for other people it can be tricky, but if you are able to live off of what you have now, it has never been easier.  It has also never been easier to live as a "digital nomad" and just live where ever you want and provide service to those who need it who may live half a world away.

If you keep a bank account, that's an easy paper trail. If you change your name you leave an easy paper trail. If you fly somewhere, it's an easy paper trail. Living or visiting any urban environment is out of the question because almost all urban environments are heavily monitored by cameras, which are now capable of being monitored 24/7 by machines using facial recognition (as well as body and gait recognition, for anyone who thinks a mask will protect their identity).

It's absolutely way harder, if not impossible, to completely disappear today compared to even 20 or 30 years ago. Sure, some areas are less actually populated by woke people. If you live in San Francisco and publicly object to sexualizing children, you will have an angry mob outside your house, but if you live in Idaho they (probably) aren't going to drive hundreds of miles to harass you. But they can still harass you online and ruin your reputation. If you're doing the remote worker thing then do you think your employer will stick with you if you get targeted by the mob, when they can easily hire FacelessRemoteWorker29 from anywhere in the world?

  If you are fleeing from having been a terrorist, there is a paper trail.  If some oddball on the interwebz is trying that hard to ruin your life to follow you to another country, that sounds less like a problem that involves moving, and more a problem that involves a face to face with your online harrasser.
Still a gamble. There have been times when it's worked out well, and times when it really hasn't.

And that assumes you can -find- your online harasser. Remember, a lot of these slugs use online harassment because it insulates them from the prospect of legal action, police visits, restraining orders, and angry significant others interested in kicking the living fuck out of them. So they take great pains to avoid being identified, and it usually takes something drastic to push authorities into actually doing something (like a swatting that results in injury or death).

    True, but push people to have a life unlivable, they may decide their tormentor gets to join them in hell.    I would also say, just like leaving the country leaves a trail, well so does trying to ruin someone.  It all comes down to how serious everyone is I guess.