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Module 6 -the final set of readings!- is about long-term predictions and planning. (For anyone new here, I'm live-tweeting the lecture prep for my course, Predictive Fictions, which I'm teaching for the first time this session at @ASU_SFIS. Full syllabus: malkaolder.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/syl…)
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Thread for Module 2:
I'm reading @JincyWillett's very funny Amy Falls Down, which includes a lovely fantasy segment about someone paying for a bunch of writers to train their way across the US doing events with prosecco and some of these writers do not even have books about to come out, AND
I AM STILL MAD that we didn't get an arts stimulus package that, in addition to streaming plays and museum talks and remote concerts, would fund nightly talks and discussions by a wide range of writers and artists. I appreciate all that theaters and bookstore owners have done but
why should they (and we, because I've done lots of unpaid as well as paid events this past year) do it for free?! yes I realize that while the so-called govt is squabbling over the most basic of disaster assistance for stupid reasons we could not expect this but nonetheless we
Population is power, borders are arbitrary, and citizenship is an invented category with invented rules that can change at any time. #Infomocracy #Microdemocracy
Imagine if US followed this up, offering a path to citizenship for all Chinese citizens. Boss move in the power struggle, no? Imagine if China retaliated with the same. Then Russia offers citizenship for anyone but has to sweeten it: no taxes 1st 10years! #SpeculativeResistance
Then countries worried about falling populations like Japan decide to chip in a reimbursement for shipping costs if people come as residents on a path to citizenship. Brain drain becomes more of a concern, so countries try to cushy up their educated #SpeculativeResistance
It's Sunday afternoon and I'm not being productive anyway, so: 1 like = 1 public policy proposal.* #SpeculativeResistance
*may vary in level of detail, realism, and response delay.
*may vary in level of detail, realism, and response delay.
1) Make cigarettes illegal: small fine for use outside home, large fine for retail, jail up to CEO level for wholesale and production. Make all addiction support programs free/subsidized, incentives for tobacco farmers to switch to organic crops.
2) Raise absolute minimum wage AND link any given firm's minimum wage to its maximum wage (eg, no maximum wage may be more than 20x the minimum wage at that company)
