Wish : Everybody Wants to
Rule the World
What’s left after you get
rid of all
the bad people? Well,
there’s our
culture and our social
systems.
That’s got to be where the
Jerk
Factory is. It’s got to be
our
culture or our social
systems that
turn all these good people
bad.
So what if you get to be
World
Leader and reform all
those
broken systems? Then you’d
be
able to fix all the
things that are wrong
with the world,
right?
Get out your magic
lamp and make your
second wish. Wish to
be World Leader, with a
promise
to end violence, war,
crime,
poverty, pollution, greed,
and hate.
Okay, so poof! You’re the
World
Leader. Not just a world leader,
but The World Leader. The
only
one.
You make laws to protect
the
environment and shut down
companies that disobey the
laws.
This increases poverty
because
millions of people lose
their
jobs, but you fix that
problem by
taxing the rich to give to
the poor,
spreading wealth out more
evenly.
This increases greed,
because the
rich become resentful and
the
poor expect even more.
You fight crime and
violence by
creating a worldwide
police force
with ubiquitous
surveillance. But
that actually increases violence,
because now the police
force must
use violence to subdue
dangerous
criminals and freedom
fighters
who oppose the new role of
the
police and their loss of
privacy.
A country invades a
bordering
country; what do you do?
How
can you stop a war without
waging war yourself?
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