Not only will you die, but so will your entire family and your pets.
This is so you are incentivised to stay alive.
Rules:
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You cannot refuse this, refusal is also instant death, along with everyone mentioned above.
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You have absolute authority over the entire world.
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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.
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Every above age 18 can vote.
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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.
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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.
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If someone dies before voting, their vote automatically becomes “Disapprove” (So you don’t get any ideas of committing genocides)
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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.
Not what I would do, but the safest way is to villify then execute small and unpopular minorities (in the minority/majority sense) and then cater to the monolithic block that emerges. Super evil but it works.
Any simple majority is, I suspect, systematically like this
Lol that sounds like Germany in 1933. So horrible and immoral, but like… it worked. Dude has so much support and everyone else was just apathetic and didn’t oppose him.
Establish a system where voting Approve provides tangible personal benefits, Abstaining remains a safe, comfortable default, and Disapproving results in immediate personal drawbacks. Maintain a decent standard of living, encourage open non-violent expression, and quickly address problems so people rarely feel compelled to choose Disapprove. By making Approval the path to greater prosperity, Abstention harmless, and Disapproval costly, the majority either Approve or simply do nothing, ensuring that discontent never coherently organizes into a mass disapproval large enough to threaten your life.
I’d rather die. But while we’re at it, I’ll make it my goal to get everyone to vote against me. The world will at least have a taste of unity against a common enemy for once. It shouldn’t be difficult anyway.
Universal healthcare for all.
Free cheesesticks for everyone!
Send out a mailer periodically to everyone in the world say how your government helped you and your family this week.
Pay a bunch of influencers to speak nuanced praise. Yes, it’s a propaganda machine, but without one, disapproval would arise based on completely non-factual bases.
Institute a fair taxing system, that allows successful people to get reasonably far ahead, to a limit, but does not leave others behind at their expense.
Train up a large joint military exclusively in de-escalation and disaster response. Squabbles between belligerent parties would just be flooded with this neutral force to mediate the issue and ease tensions as quickly as possible.
Tackle worldwide issues of health and disease, climate change, food security, shelter, social mobility, education, transport. Each country would be incentivized to make their own countries’ resilient, but other neighbours would chip in resources if one is falling behind or is hit by disaster. Institute worldwide minimum safety standards for all labourers and empower individuals to report unsafe conditions.
Slowly modify religion (release new versions of the Bible, Quran etc. that remain mostly true to their origins but emphasize the “be nice to each other” parts and remove the “kill anyone that doesn’t believe this/doesn’t follow these rules to the letter” parts). Bring leaders of these religions together to discuss promoting inter-religious peace.
Hold annual community pride, national pride and world pride days, to celebrate humanity’s accomplishments, establish unity and comradery with your neighbours, and an opportunity to give casual feedback to your local authorities, national authorities, and me (before they hit the disapprove switch, hehe).
- build a childhood museum early on
- change all industry buildings from sweat shop to easy does it
- enact the Bribe Faction Leaders, Food for the People, Free Housing, National Day, Social Security, Hola Presidente, Sensitivity Training, Papal Visit, and Pollution Standards edicts
- make sure average pay is above Caribbean pay
- use the cathedral to claim any Tropicans that are peacefully protesting me are heretics
- have a nuclear weapons program to protect against invasion from the US and USSR
- ensure diverse food and entertainment
- hold all scheduled elections and give a speech every each one acknowledging the lowest happiness variable and promising to do something about it, while also praising the least happiest faction
Make up some bs problems and be the one to fix them, I suppose
Weekly richest person in the world slaughter.
Semi-frequent ‘Adjustments’ as needed, high corporate/wealth taxes, universal health care, actually using the empty homes to solve the housing crisis
Well, I don’t really mind death, and no pets or dependants, and I feel humans have had their run, order sterilisation of everyone all ages. Don’t want to kill anyone, just puff out over time, we had our run. Time for something else to have a shot.
I don’t. Nobody has the magical ability to make anyone listen to them.
I get convicted for rape and fraud. We have empirical evidence that it works.
Easy. High taxes on the rich and spend that money to give good universal social programs, and also avert climate catastrophe. The tiny fraction of rich people will disapprove but screw them anyways.
The hard part is getting the political will to do the obvious right thing when politics is controlled by the rich.
I mean, at least try doing a few good things before you get “Disapproved” to death.
