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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • Corporations can be people, but their lifetimes have to be tied to the average lifespan of the citizens. So every 80 years or so it has to die and pass it’s holdings onto a child corp. Also a reversed lottery where a statistically equivalent amount of corporations get statistically equivalent diseases to the American population. Your state has a statistically higher level of cancer due to industrial waste, the local corporations have a statistically higher chance of just ceasing to exist. The accountants and lawyers would effectively work around it, but at least it might make a corp think twice before introducing the all new deep fried stick of butter sandwich with fentanyl.



  • Well it used to be that rich people preferred to have porcelain white skin, because the poor had to be outside to work. Then the poor started working indoors, so now the rich prefer to be tanned.

    Art tastes will change similarly. Art with obvious imperfections will be considered better. Actual paintings with large obvious, textured brush strokes. Books and poems printed on rough hand made paper. Maybe even hand lettered. Things that were obviously done by a skilled craftsman, but would be difficult to do with machines and Ai.

    Think the neovictorians from Neal Stephensons The Diamond Age.