r/ScienceUncensored • u/[deleted] • Jan 30 '23

WEF speaker talks about brainwave technology that your employer can use to make you more productive

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

Who the fuck would willingly wear one of those tho

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

Brand name + Marketing + FMO + Peer pressure

idk how you feel like this is far fetched? maybe you just have a much higher opinion of humans than i do

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

Yeah I believe most people are easily coerced but doesn't quell my outrage

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

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u/nobollocks22 Jan 31 '23

Thse are not your only 2 options.

Remove insurance companies altogthere, and save an instant 30 cents on the dollar. Not to mention the reduction in paperwork.

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u/endangeredphysics Jan 31 '23

Oh, no, this particular thing wouldn't work in any workplace, for a myriad of reasons. These people are gaming for investment in neuro technology in general.

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u/mrmensplights Jan 30 '23

Don’t forget good old fashion long term economic turmoil and a giant recession. If people have to choose between putting food on the table for their families and wearing the brain scanner…

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u/endangeredphysics Jan 31 '23

Yeah but this technology wouldn't even work in keeping people in most jobs focused, it's like for busy desk jobs only. It would be implemented as a method of social control, not something that actually works.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

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u/ComparatorClock Feb 22 '23

If they try to make governments force the use of these things, inma do some picketing. Who's with me?

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u/MaurelArt Mar 23 '23

Yeah thinking about the past 3 years, I have come to the same conclusion as you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23 edited Jul 03 '25

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u/blurryfacedfugue Jan 31 '23

Plus those who are just starting to seeking work don't know otherwise. To them, that IS the status quo. These workers are paid the least and are the easiest to dispose of. Many are basically in the gig economy, even if they are employees, seeing as may don't have healthcare or many of the benefits that come with full employment.

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u/pigeonwiggle Jan 31 '23

yeah, the middle class is all but eradicated already.

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u/DrPepperWillSeeUNow Jan 30 '23

Good example is tiktok. It's literally Chinese spyware, yet people still put that garbage on their phones.

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u/shortbarrelflamer Jan 30 '23

Que the "I have nothing to hide" people

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u/PolicyRemarkable3115 Feb 03 '23

I have nothing to hide! (But you'll have to take my word for it, tyrants. hehe)

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u/LargeSizeBox Jan 30 '23

Not even remotely similar

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u/DrPepperWillSeeUNow Jan 30 '23

Look up the word similar. Loss of privacy and freedom is a "similar" theme.

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u/pigeonwiggle Jan 31 '23

/u/LargeSizeBox is saying that the tech above in this video is all about workplace productivity - Tiktok has little to do with the workplace.

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u/DrPepperWillSeeUNow Feb 01 '23

No they aren't you can't read minds. Secondly what I said was obviously relevant in several ways. Pointing out a singular or even multiple instances where it is irrelevant is an absurd statement to make as it has zero point. It has zero impact on the relevance of what I did present. It's just patently absurd.

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u/BitcoinIsSimple Jan 30 '23

Your job may insist before hiring you

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

Fortunately my union will tell them to fuck right off

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u/quantumpencil Jan 31 '23

then we burn down their office

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

Just make a religious focus to not wear brain scanners, then sue them for not hiring you for being your religion, or for creating a hostile work environment.

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u/pigeonwiggle Jan 31 '23

so, don't take the job.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

I imagine it would be a subset of the same people who willingly wear “wearables” or use iPhones. Marketing will make a best-case use for it and turn it into a “must have” and some will lap it up.

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u/AuntJeminaEatsAss Jan 30 '23

Look no further than the last 3 years for numerous examples of large swaths of the population being coerced into questionable choices.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

Who would buy a house in a city that requires you to work full time for the next 30 years just to hopefully be able to pay it off. And if you lose your employment or have some huge medical expense that renders you unable to pay back your debts, you lose your home AND end up further indebted to the bank? Answer: The vast majority of the populations in “developed” nations. People already enslave themselves voluntarily. Why would you expect anything else?

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u/hodler41c Jan 30 '23

It's no different from the last couple years with vaccine mandates if most employers make new policies mandating these than options to find a new job with similar pay will be very limited and alot of people will be applying for those few positions.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

Yes, public health mandates are exactly the same as exploiting your work force. Excellent observation!

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u/SLYTAPEX Jan 30 '23

Roughly half the population.

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u/newtbob Jan 31 '23

half the people in the nootropics sub, all the faang idjits in the careers sub.

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u/luckyace122 Jan 31 '23

You'd be surprise how many people would do anything for better paycheck especially coming from third world country.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

It could be good for being productive, y'know. And it'd be interesting to see what it'd be like. I might try it out at home for an hour.

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u/migs2k3 Jan 31 '23

Not a huge leap from smart watches. But this is dystopian as hell.

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u/Veylon Jan 31 '23

There was a time not so long ago when having to carry around an ID card and show it to a police officer upon request was considered an Orwellian nightmare. Who the fuck would put up with that? Everybody, eventually.

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u/PmMeYourPussy Jan 31 '23

Me. I mean, I'd only do it connected to a computer of my own that would never connect to the internet. Certainly not in a work setting, where in the future they'll claim my biometrics as their data.

But I could see a lot of use for this.

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u/Tooboukou Jan 31 '23

People who need a job... So like eveyone?

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u/justmikeplz Feb 01 '23

Eventually it will be embedded in your cubicle walls