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Digital Cattle
Apr 25, 2024
Explore the unsettling idea of 'digital cattle,' parallel between humans and cattle as data providers, dystopian social credit system, failures of Marxist ideologies, social credit systems as tools for conditioning and control in a digitally controlled society.
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- Individuals risk being turned into 'digital cattle' for data extraction and control purposes by technocratic oligarchs.
- The 'digital cattle' system includes a Central Bank Digital Currency, Universal Basic Income, and social credit system to enforce compliance and extract data from individuals.
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The Concept of Digital Cattle
The podcast introduces the concept of turning individuals into 'digital cattle' by technocratic oligarchs through a system of control akin to domesticating animals for the purpose of extracting data. This concept highlights the potential future of individuals being manipulated and controlled as sources of data rather than free individuals with inalienable rights and liberties.
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