I’d suggest making everything instantly public. It isn’t hard for only three people to plot a coup.
People's Surveillance
Ryan Brown
Hudson Rodriguez
wewlad
no need to install 1984-tier government organs
Apart from that selecting people from the population seems like an alright proposal
Ayden Taylor
Also
and this official is also someone randomly selected from the population?
Elijah Bell
If not bait, this is seriously worse than the most insane things i've seen Zig Forums say, and that's saying a lot.
Nicholas Smith
If the conditions are that you're under continuous surveillance, hardly anyone will be willing to take up that position. I surely wouldn’t. If I were selected in that system I would literally flee and find a place to hide. If seized by the state anyway, and forced to submit to that position, I would probably develop a severe depression which would make me unfit for the job just as well. The human cost for this system is simply too high. It would be the most extreme and totalitarian police state mankind has known. Honestly I would prefer living in Nazi Germany or in fucking ancapistan over a socialist society where I live in constant fear of being seized by the government for a month of unimaginable hardship. If this is the price that needs to be payed for socialism, I honestly prefer barbarism. Socialism isn’t worth this.
Tyler Johnson
This is not only stupid but incredibly easy to subvert. Everyone knows who is corrupt in the current leadership, why they are corrupt, and some of the people know what is happening but are afraid to speak out for fear of being denounced as a conspiracy theorist or insane. Watch as the pool of monitors is curbed by declaring 80% of the population incurably and totally insane - it's not that far from what is already happening with ~20% of the population deemed as such and their medical records being permanent and following them everywhere they go.
Gabriel Myers
Ebin attempt at making the lefties look like nutjobs who want a police state:DDD
now go back to Zig Forums
Hudson Bell
Yeah ok, make everything instantly public, I'm for that. But do you really think that three randomly selected people, from divergent backgrounds, would be able to plan and stage a coup in a month's time?
I guess it's '1984-tier', sure, but it would be 1984-style surveillance directed at single individuals with power, rather than the reverse, 1984-style surveillance directed at millions of individuals with exponentially less access to the levers of power.
No, I'm not saying that people in power should be randomly selected, only the people overseeing those that hold power. Obviously we need competent and trained people to direct the economy, etc.
Sebastian White
Alright
It still wouldn't be justifiable, ethically speaking, and also unnecessary. There's literally no reason why they can't just continue their private live during this month. Especially since the whole system is supposed to be transparent, so there's no sensitive information for them to leak in the first place.
Jose Russell
Oh wait. I misunderstood your OP. You want the actual officials in power to be constantly monitored, like the entirety of their term? That's even worse. Literally no one will want a high level position.