The Privacy Iceberg

This is original content. AI was not used anywhere except for the bottom right image, simply because I could not find one similar enough to what I needed. This took around 6 hours to make.

Transcription (for the visually impaired)

(I tried my best)

The background is an iceberg with 6 levels, denoting 6 different levels of privacy.

The tip of the iceberg is titled “The Brainwashed” with a quote beside it that says “I have nothing to hide”. The logos depicted in this section are:

The surface section of the iceberg is titled “As seen on TV” with a quote beside it that says “This video is sponsored by…”. The logos depicted in this section are:

An underwater section of the iceberg is titled “The Beginner” with a quote beside it that says “I don’t like hackers and spying”. The logos depicted in this section are:

A lower section of the iceberg is titled “The Privacy Enthusiast” with a quote beside it that says “I have nothing I want to show”. The logos depicted in this section are:

An even lower section of the iceberg is titled “The Privacy Activist” with a quote beside it that says “Privacy is a human right”. The logos depicted in this section are:

The lowest portion of the iceberg is titled “The Ghost”. There is a quote beside it that has been intentionally redacted. The images depicted in this section are:

  • A cancel sign over a mobile phone, symbolizing “no electronics”
  • An illustration of a log cabin, symbolizing “living in a log cabin in the woods”
  • A picture of gold bars, symbolizing “paying only in gold”
  • A picture of a death certificate, symbolizing “faking your own death”
  • An AI generated picture of a person wearing a black hoodie, a baseball cap, a face mask, and reflective sunglasses, symbolizing “hiding ones identity in public”

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  • iterable@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Gold is great until you find out you can manufacture it and mass production was kept secret to avoid what happened with diamonds.

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      3 days ago

      The day we can mass produce gold is the day we have a post-scarcity society. Full elemental transmutation, which would be required to mass produce gold, would also eliminate virtually all resource shortages.

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          3 days ago

          Post-scarcity refers to most goods being able to be produced in abundance with minimal human labor. Even assuming that current food production fully falls under that umbrella, housing definitely does not, and it requires a lot more than just food and housing.

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            2 days ago

            Housing it definitely does. There’s more empty houses than homeless people.

            We’ve already arrived at post scarcity. All we need to do is this off the capitalists that keep unused housing empty. The scarcity is artificial

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              I was referring to the fact that building and maintaining housing is still a largely manual process, and requires a fairly large amount of human labor. Maintaining power, water, sewage, and other things required for modern housing requires an even larger amount of human work.

              Whether there are enough houses to actually fit all the people is unrelated to this.

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                My point is we already did all that. Thanks to efforts from our ancestors, we no longer have a scarcity of housing.

                What we do have is a bunch of oligarchs who have stolen our housing and are holding it for ransom

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                  Post-scarcity does not refer to the physical resources required to maintain civilization. It refers to the ability to maintain said resources and civilization without a lot of human labor. We could have ten houses per person, but housing still wouldn’t fall under the post-scarcity umbrella until we could maintain and build new houses with minimal human labor.

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      3 days ago

      produce gold? please tell me how one “mass produces” a base element?