Public utilities have special pricing to ensure people at home can access them. Laws simply need to be amended to put a cap on the percentage available to commercial interests

Some percentage, including me, would have built a second or third

You could take genes out of the picture and the story would hold. Just assume people raised by impulsive parents distracted by 8 other kids are more likely to repeat the cycle. Contrary to supporting eugenics, that idea is inclusive and powers progressive welfare reform.

Reddit is gamed like that. Even before LLMs there were highly active users that caught bans for using multiple accounts to boost all their posts.

Facebook didn’t catch on in a similar way, because people didn’t have personal feeds yet. The way startups are funded now seems to follow your model though. Decisions on high about what people should see/want.

His powers expand if he can claim a state of emergency. He likes to keep lots of them happening

Collapsing people’s multidimensional political beliefs onto a single line hides a lot of the data. As long as “conservative” and “liberal” group membership directs votes, the meaning of the terms are actively warped and shifted.

More housing ≠ more people. We aren’t going back to a 3+ child average unless a lot of other things change