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Why is it I go straight to “some fascist government is going to set this up on the street and just laser undesirables”
I can see a day when we the non-rich have tattooed barcodes, implanted chips, and god knows what else about our persons, we will be scanned to death, system would choose who to zap (kill) or just persecute in some manor.
I had this job where a idiot director thought about forcing us workers to wear wrist bands with barcodes, our timecards have same barcode, everything we do is tracked by barcodes, thankfully was rejected.....but upper management considered it to much for us workers comfort 😞
Except it clears acne and keeps people clean-shaven. Unfortunately it doesn't work for some minority subset due to skin, hair color, or some other overlooked bias. Ultimately leading those individuals to fail job interviews and such. Leading them to a life of meager success compared to the majority.