Is DOGE a ploy? Creating a New Social Contract - Would You Agree To This?

A Transparency Movement. Shock Collars for Politicians. And more!

People are always corruptible, and fairly easily too. A little blackmail, some money, a threat, real violence, or worse… and you can get pretty much anyone to do whatever you want, especially if you have the spying power of the NSA, CIA, FBI, and big tech under your control.

We should NEVER trust politicians or people in power, even if they speak the way we want them to, or act in ways we desire. When it comes to power, the only thing we should trust is good systems. And right now, our systems are flawed or corrupted at every level.

How can we fix this? To start, we force transparency onto our corrupted systems and officials so we can see what is really happening and try to fix it. If we can’t see it, we can’t fix it.

Sure DOGE seems like it is attempting this, but can we really be sure it isn’t a ploy? Why isn’t there total transparency? Are we sure that the world’s richest man, and one of the leading defense contract holders has only the best intentions for the people? The accountability in the system should be to the people directly, not to a centralized authority. We must make sure the idea of transparency, audits, government spending, and actual representation is being held accountable. We can only do this by building a better system to do so, something like metaphorical shock collars for our representatives. Ones that if they don’t volunteer to wear, then we will find other people more loyal to our mission of transparency who will.

Fixing our corrupted system should be line item #1. It should rank above all things - because nothing else matters. It should be something all of us want - all sides of the political spectrum. No matter who you vote for or what your views are, we should all want the systems that govern over our lives to be bullet proof to outside forces such as special interest groups or regulatory capture. (Unless of course you are part of the corruption and benefitting somehow from it). So by focusing on this one line item - together - it can be a great way to smoke out the people who are trying to corrupt the system. We will see clearly who is a friend of the people and who isn’t. It would be that obvious who was corrupted - because an honest politician (or academic, or leader of any kind) should be all about making the system better and harder to corrupt. Only a crook wouldn’t want that. (If they got nothing to hide then they got nothing to fear, right?).

So let’s set aside the culture wars and hot button topics for long enough to work together on this one thing, and once it is fixed we can see just how much having a system that is trustworthy, transparent, accountable, and actually responsive to representative democracy governing over us really changes how we grow as a society.

To us it is as simple as this: we need a movement. Call it a Transparency Movement, call it whatever you want, but we need groups of people across all spectrums of humanity thinking about this problem and all working together on it. We need groups of tech thinkers working on and developing (open sourced? Blockchain?) software that is constantly evolving and testing itself against corruption. We need people spreading the word and adding new ideas to how we can make this work as effectively as possible.

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Creating a New Social Contract to Fix Corrupt Systems.

First we need a new agreement. A new code to live by. One that we work on together, and one whose sole purpose is to fix the corruption in the systems that govern our lives. This would not replace any existing system but rather just make the ones we already have very difficult to corrupt, and with huge consequences where we actually hold accountable those who attempt to corrupt it.

Next, we need new technologies designed specifically to help us participate in government, hold politicians accountable, and make government as transparent as possible. We can start using these technologies on some small elections first - like mayoral races - and beta test the software and upgrade changes there then watch the idea spread as it succeeds (which it will).

Skeptics of our current system often fear technology because it has been used by the government against the people. And they have a point. Entities like big tech corporations, the NSA, etc., are constantly monitoring our lives. And we have all seen the terrifying social credit score system in China. But why can’t we use the same technology back on the politicians? Give them a live read of their own “political credit scores” with how we feel about their honesty, transparency and representation? We have not even begun to explore the ways where technology could be used for making a more accountable government.

In other words, we - as voters - will use technology on the government officials in the same way the government uses the NSA on its own people. This technology will be created by the people (again…. open source? blockchain?) and be ever evolving to prevent corruption and regain control of the systems that govern our lives. The politicians will all happily volunteer to use the new technology because if they refuse to we won’t vote for them, ever again - regardless of political affiliation. Within 6 years every single corrupt politician could be replaced with a new kind of politician - a transparent one. One that is truly representing the people.

But first we would need an agreement. It doesn’t have to be this exact one, but after discussing this with other strategic directors we thought this seemed like a good place to start:

THE AGREEMENT:

1) We agree to fix the system as line item #1 above all other issues.

2) We agree to remove money from politics. We will never vote for any politician regardless of party if they violate this rule after agreeing to it. This includes conflicts of interests, and backdoor or dark money deals with relatives or family members etc etc. All of it will be monitored with our new technology, and we will directly hold politicians accountable with zero tolerance.

3) We agree to never vote for any politician who refuses to use our new technology up to the standards we set for them (and those standards will constantly evolve). Representatives agree to use our new technology that will create transparency in government. Our technology will also be constantly evolving to prevent corruption and should be consistently scrutinized and tested by the people. We will also make technology that connects voters and politicians over individual issues and ideas.

Possibilities:
Imagine if every politician video recorded every meeting they had and posted it online in real time. Failure to do so - even once -and they would be voted out for life, or immediately recalled if possible. Real accountability. Or, Imagine if all governmental expenses, spending, contracts, and accounting was posted online for all of us to see in real time (It’s our money isn’t it?). Imagine if all the bills in Congress and the Senate were posted online in full text before they were voted on. Imagine a blockchain social media platform for governing - with real time polling and and upvoting that gave immediate feedback and accountability to our representatives - one that was run by the people and government had no control over. Imagine if we used DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) as a fair way to handle contracts and bids with taxpayer money to prevent favoritism and cronyism. The technology - done right - could do for politicians what body cams did for policing - but even better. The possibilities are endless, and we have barely begun to scratch the surface. (We will layout some of the awesome tech ideas for governing in a future Substack here).

4) We agree to only vote for politicians who make fixing the actual system the focal point of their platforms. They must be advocates for improving the system and have tangible plans on how to eliminate corruption from the government and surrounding systems.

5) We agree to work towards helping marginalized communities gain access to the new technologies so everyone can participate in government.

6) We agree to work to create more decentralization in governmental systems (Explore this idea more here).

7) We agree to work towards ending insider trading by politicians.

8) We agree to hold politicians accountable and punish people if they attempt to corrupt any of our governmental systems.

9) We start to look at the role of the politician as once again a service and a sacrifice - much like the military. A duty - not to government, but to the people.

Anyone who serves in office and adheres to the agreement should be honored and praised. After agreeing to our New Agreement it will put a spotlight on them - a level of transparency that will require vulnerability and exposure. Any little blemish is going to be magnified. It should be commendable for people to do this, and we should be understanding of their vulnerability. Representing the people will once again truly be an honorable thing.

And that’s it. #TransparencyMovement

A recap:

Step one - form an agreement between all people and our representatives, and we all take a new oath to uphold the agreement. The purpose of the agreement is simply to end corruption in the systems that govern our lives and rebuild trust in them.

Step two - create new and evolving technologies - controlled by the people (government has no say or control of) - that are tools needed to prevent corruption and make politicians accountable and responsive to their constituents.

Step three - Force all representatives to use the new technology systems with the unified oath of not voting for them, recalling them, and giving them zero tolerance if they fail to comply. In other words, we only vote for representatives who agree to our new agreement and who also agree to use our new technologies up to the standards we set. We collectively blacklist any politician who rejects these terms, and we collectively honor those who serve them well.

Step four: The people regain control of the systems, fix them, and watch how much better everything runs when the whole thing isn’t corrupted.

As Naval Ravikant likes to say: “A sign of a good system is that you should be able to turn it over to your enemies - have them purposely try and break it - and it should still run perfectly.” Well, the systems that govern our lives are being run by people who do not have our best interests in mind, and they are no longer running perfectly. So we need to adapt the system against the ways it is being gamed.

We don't need these corrupted institutions anymore. We can just build new parallel ones that are transparent, decentralized, and hard to corrupt. Then migrate there to solve our collective problems.

If we trust people, they will all eventually become corrupted like all centralized systems do.

Thanks for reading!

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