Building rapport as a condition for meaningful dialogue MAY HAVE BEEN necessary in the past. Today, it is the doorway to discrimination because its false logic is rooted in "I seek similarity & acceptance; if you offer it, it makes you safe & trustworthy".
@AtobeQuama
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I build decentralization tools the mainstream can use daily to help replace MV=PQ, the root cause of all our problems, with EV=PQ.
We need to stop judging & start listening when someone challenges us, even from the get go! Otherwise, we risk remaining trapped in our circular social staircase that evolves nowhere.
But what's the bridge to trusting someone in a discussion if you've never met before?
Building & adopting a trust-less reputation system you can check someone against without ever knowing their identity.
The vast majority of "creatives'" 🎨 📽️ re-package & re-compose age-old ideas & shapes using shiny pixels into blogs, videos & podcasts then claim AI can never be as "ORIGINAL" as they are at that.
New lows for "Head in the sand" standard set! Mind blown! 🤯
If we had a publicly shareable pseudonymous reputation system with an indisputable record of ALL our interactions with one another, even when behind closed doors... could that reduce our desire to abuse?
I'd love to hear your ideas!
If I get the chance to work & thrive, not just survive, have I gained privilege?
If I use resources I didn’t really need; ones I accumulated that someone else could have used to obtain SIMILAR OPPORTUNITY, have I now abused that privilege?
Equal access to opportunity, not equality of outcome, is what DISABUSES privilege.
So... how do we re-architect our system to deliver that?
@QasimRashid eloquently quoted “When you've had privilege your whole life, equality feels like oppression.”
As applicable as it may be to the “woke/not really woke” pretenders (whom I agree are egregiously guilty of privilege abuse), I wondered what it means to have privilege & if we all cling to & abuse it.
If you choose to answer the hard Q's, you'll conclude most of us have privilege & abuse it, even if less so than others!
And to understand this is to ask: "What is privilege anyway?"
Qasim Rashid, Esq.What GOP will regulate:
•Guns❌
•Banks❌
•Railroads❌
•Mortgages❌
•Food & water❌
•Toxic dumping❌
•Carbon emissions❌
•COVID safety rules❌
•Billionaire tax rates❌
•Campaign donations❌
•Dialogue on racism✅
•Women’s bodies✅
•Contraception✅
•History books✅
•Guns❌
•Banks❌
•Railroads❌
•Mortgages❌
•Food & water❌
•Toxic dumping❌
•Carbon emissions❌
•COVID safety rules❌
•Billionaire tax rates❌
•Campaign donations❌
•Dialogue on racism✅
•Women’s bodies✅
•Contraception✅
•History books✅
I'm here to act. I’m here to bring about positive & civil change with tools we can all use in our daily life. I build decentralization tools, NOT JUST "picks & shovels", so we can all act NOW.
Most of us on Mastodon (& Farcaster, etc..) believe in positive creed:
Accountability
Responsibility &
Helping others learn them
While words light a beacon for many too afraid to take action, a few brave souls need to open the door for others to muster the courage to bring the civil energy to make change.
Children grow up when they fail & deal with consequences. Their parents can't save them always!
So if the government keeps stepping in to save banks & VCs, when will they grow up & start behaving well?
The problem is not that we have an "incompetent" parent or a "nepotistic" one!
It's that parenting was the wrong solution to begin with... we need a permanent alternative.