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2026-09-28

Frogboil people's boundaries

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In my earlier zero privacy discussions, on one hand I noticed that a lot of things in the world would improve if everyone had no privacy. But on the other hand, if I had to try and implement this world literally today, I would have to go violate a lot of people's stated boundaries and this made me feel bad.
At the same time, I also believe that the average person is really stupid (i.e. not thinking long-term) when deciding how to live their life, so even many of their stated boundaries are based on stupid reasons.
The answer seems to be to basically frogboil people's boundaries? Put the incentives against the people, make it so that each individual choice feels only mildly coerced as opposed to being made at gunpoint, but once the people have made N consecutive choices this way, eventually you have gotten what you want.
(This is not an original insight ofcourse, many leaders already know that this is the Way.)

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