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You have been randomly selected to become the leader of the world, but if you do not maintain more than 50% approval rating, you immediately die. How do you survive?

Not only will you die, but so will your entire family and your pets.

This is so you are incentivised to stay alive.

Rules:

You cannot refuse this, refusal is also instant death, along with everyone mentioned above.
You have absolute authority over the entire world.
Every person has a non-removable brain implant that allows them to vote "Approve", "Disapprove", or "Abstain from vote". These are completely immune to hacking.
Every above age 18 can vote.
You must maintain 50% + 1 vote of "Approve", exactly 50% Approve / 50% Disapprove still means death for you. "Abstain" is not a vote means it isn't counted.
The effects don't apply until at least 50% of the population has voted. If you get more 51% disapproval, you'll still live as long as theres less than 50% of the votes submitted.
If someone dies before voting, their vote automatically becomes "Disapprove" (So you don't get any ideas of committing genocides)
Once a vote is submitted, it stays valid even if the person died. A person could also make their implant automatically change vote if they die. So someone could have their vote be set at "Approve" but becomes "Disapprove" upon death.

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There is no way. People would say they disapprove just to watch you fucking die, even if you gave them everything they wanted. Fuck that.

Easy. High taxes on the rich and spend that money to give good universal social programs, and also avert climate catastrophe. The tiny fraction of rich people will disapprove but screw them anyways.
The hard part is getting the political will to do the obvious right thing when politics is controlled by the rich.

- I mean, at least try doing a few good things before you get "Disapproved" to death.

I would automatically forgive every debt of every person in the bottom 75% of income.
I would then institute a new currency that cannot be exchanged for the old currency and devalue all currently existing currency in the world.
I would replace all of those currencies with a credit, where one credit is worth one hour of unskilled labor, meaning that the minimum wage would be set to one credit.
Developing new skills and providing that labor at higher skill levels would give you federally mandated minimum multipliers of your minimum wage.
Worldwide I would make it a rule that the C level executives of any company are directly personally responsible for the actions of their company as a whole, meaning that if a mining company chooses to disregard safety measures and get one of their workers killed then all of the executives of that company are guilty of manslaughter and will be tried as if they personally slaughtered that man.
Every company that is currently traded on the stock market would have to have external oversight so that they cannot monopolize their field.
Every company that utilizes software must submit their software to a federally secured library with all of the source code and all of the steps needed to recreate their software.
This will be given copyright protections for 21 years, after which time the code will become public domain.
All copyright will be set to 21 years from the date of its creation.
All nuclear weapons will be destroyed and converted into fuel for nuclear reactors.
Every person currently in prison who did not commit a violent act will be automatically pardoned.
Any person who did commit a violent act and who has more than 10 years left on their sentence will be immediately executed.
The maximum amount of time a person can be incarcerated will be capped at 10 years. If a person does a crime that requires incarceration of greater than 10 years time they will be executed.
If a prisoner participates in a work program they will receive the minimum wage that they deserve based off of their qualifications.
I would also abolish all health insurance and instead transition to single-payer across the world. All hospitals will be nationalized and required to achieve a set minimum capability to be certified as a hospital.
I would forgive all debts between nations and remove all tariffs as this is now my world and there are no debts between my Nations and there are no tarrifs between my Nations.
Every country or collective will be given the absolute right to operate with its own presidents and leaders and groupings as they so choose without molestation from other people or groups.
In the event of a dispute there will be a world Court and you will argue your side with the world Court and if they are unable to make a decision then it will be given to general vote to decide the outcome.
Being as that there are no officially established Nations anymore, people will not require visas. You will have a license to operate a vehicle and the freedom to go wherever you are capable of going in the entire world.
I would also demilitarize the world to a reasonable degree and spread out small militias to act as a policing force.
Of the police would no longer have qualified immunity in America or anywhere in the world and every police person would carry a camera on them at all times when they are performing their duties.
Turning off the camera or having a malfunction in that camera that is not immediately reported while you are interacting with a member of the public will be grounds for severe consequences up to and including execution.
After that I would just steer the course we haven't landed on Mars yet we've not begun to colonize the solar system we haven't repaired the damage to the planet there would be several special interest groups established to achieve those things and if despite my utopian concept the majority of the world decides that I'm not worth it than it the very least I'll have made enough positive impact to be satisfied with the outcome.
- What’s with all the executions?
  
  You raise a good point.
  I think what might be a better idea would be to take every person who is slated for execution and they are allowed a 5-minute clip but onto some sort of public broadcast where the world gets to decide. They can argue the reasons why they should be forgiven and the prosecutor will explain their crimes in great detail.
  Then the world gets to vote and majority rules. That would help me be seen as a merciful dictator so it's a win-win all the way around. Plus it would also help me weed out people that were wrongly convicted or people where the law is too strict for the crime.
- I fear the transitional period implied by some of these changes will be what gets you. You have unlimited authority; you can't just snap your fingers like a genie, you'll need to implement these policies. These things take time, and they'll cause chaos and uncertainty, followed by confusion as people adjust. If you're not careful with your rollout, you risk waves of disapproval.
  
  You raise a good point. I would fill that time with making worldwide broadcast at least on the weekly like a fireside chat where I would talk to people and field questions from a twitch interface and do my best to alleviate the worries and fears and to take in the concerns of the people just like you who are afraid that I will cause more harm than good and that way I can get the feedback that I would need to be the best possible lifelong emperor of the planet.
  I would also remind everyone that I didn't choose this it was thrust upon me and so I want to work with everyone to make the world as good as it possibly can be.
  And this also raises another point, I would make it so that news is not protected free speech unless it reports on the facts as best as it knows them.
  The minute you start throwing opinion pieces up and calling it "news" with the underscore objective to be to get as many viewers as possible so that you can maximize your advertising revenue then you would become liable for slander and other possible negative consequences to your actions.
  Probably not execution though, lol.
  Maybe more like being decertified as a "news" organization and not being allowed to broadcast for a period of time.
  I would also use my authority to make ads on the internet illegal, and probably set up an international shopping mart where companies can hawk their wares without manipulative algorithms attempting to coerce people into buying things they don't want.
  More like an international Bazaar.
- Well, I'd vote for you!

Any non-corrupt politician would be unstoppable if they honestly attempted to strive for at least a few of these:
election reform
single payer
abolish private medical insurance and fold those companies into a 100% taxpayer funded (Single Payer) national healthcare system much like they have in Canada and South Korea. (Anywhere else doesn’t have true Single Payer.)
repeal Citizens United
bring back Glass Steagall
anti-genocide/ cutting off the infinite money tap that the AIPAC/IDF command
prosecute Israel (and the politicians that enabled them in the US should also be tried in front of The Hague) for crimes against humanity
prosecute George W. Bush and company for the Iraq war. Imprison them for the rest of their lives.
publicly execute Jon Bolton in the most brutal way possible using weapons from arms manufacturers that he openly works for 😅
student loan reform (without bullshit means testing)
reparations
stop spying on US citizens and dissolve the CIA/NSA/FBI’s conflict of interest with ALL tech companies in the US. Facebook is a DIRECT feed to the NSA and law enforcement and that needs to stop not be ramped up under the guise of “protecting us from terrorism” like Kamala asserts and ends up being used solely to go after whistle blowers and protesters.
break up the conglomerate farms that our government actively encourages to put poison in our food that they then feed to only poor children in our schools while the rich kids get organic diets.
reform the FDA and USDA (compare the list of banned chemicals in the EU to here and tell me that someone isn’t greasing someone’s palms in exchange for POISONING us with roundup, etc)
police DEmilitarization
stop writing blank checks to the military industrial complex under the guise of “helping”, sending vast sums of money that would EASILY pay for Single Payer to be burned in futile proxy wars with Russia
force car companies to make self driving car technology open source and introduce rigorous standards and best practices for this software that is responsible for human lives
break up the airline industry
break up the banking industry
audit the Fed
disallow Black Rock and other conglomerates from owning homes
disallow real estate purchases from non US citizens
disallow real estate price fixing and penalize the companies that did it
make college free for EVERYONE and raise taxes on the rich to pay for it
force NVidia to open source CUDA/ZLUDA
decriminalize marijuana
fund a high speed rail system in the US
reform the Supreme Court and bring Clarence Thomas up on treason charges under the penalty of death
immigrants no longer in cages (rather than ramping up putting immigrants in cages and just marketing it differently)
end the embargo on Cuba
penalize countries and corporations financially for pollution. Make it prohibitively expensive for Temu, Amazon, SHEIN, and Alibaba to ship their goods over oceans on the worst polluting internal combustion engines on earth: container ships. In reality, it was our Clintonite, globalist Democrats (the good guys!) that actively encouraged corporations to manufacture overseas.
reward other countries and corporations financially for green policies
dissolve the two party system and bring the DNC and GOP up on treason charges
give Edward Snowden immunity for his “crimes” and protect him as a whistle blower
fund the fediverse and other decentralized technologies that have a direct positive effect on democracy
socialize and break up Amazon into twenty companies
open source and decentralize Twitter for the crime of election interference
force Amazon, Google, Alphabet, OpenAI, Meta, and Apple to open source at least a large chunk of their tech stacks
force pharmaceutical industry to open source their tax-payer funded research and products that were created using government funding
socialize Google (for the crime of election interference and others)
fund RISC-V chip technologies instead of closed source technologies to bring chip manufacturing back to the US
socialize Meta (for the crime of election interference and other crimes)
- 50% of THE WORLD. You're dead because I don't believe anywhere near 50% of China or India cares about most of this list. This is a list of American issues.
  
  My list was preconceived in a comment I made a while back so you caught me there. But as I went back through the list , 80% of what I was proposing would instantly make the rest of the world a better place because the US is basically the villain of the world.
  The Jon Bolton execution alone would inspire parades across the Middle East.
  
  Imao, imagine doing every good thing, but then people are apathetic and doesnt vote, and only people whom are disapproving of you, votes.
  
  Start with what you know
- Wouldn't even get 10% of American approval. Truly wild and unhinged.

Step 1. Ask the world for 1 year decision amnesty while I get my bearings.
Step 2. Bring together the different government run hacking groups and direct them to obtain the root certificates the devices use to communicate back to the tallying servers.
Step 3. Rewrite all death votes to be approved.
Step 4. Scrub the internet of this entire thing. Because if it isn't on the internet then did it really happen?
Step 5. What world leader? You all vote for your own national governments.
Step 6. Return to be a nobody because fuck that pressure.
- Nah, you cant hack this shit because it has plot armor. Call it "magic" "divine intervention" or whatever, you just cannot hack it.
  I mean you can put out propaganda to manipulate people, but you cannot hack the system, its just has unhackable firewall.
  
  Ok, absolute power route it is.
  All proposals must be voted yes by the populus.

Go the Warhammer 40K emperor route: set up nukes worldwide, triggered by a pacemaker on me. I die, the world dies.
- Yea, I feel like you'd died by overwhelming "Disapprove" votes before you can finish doing that.
  
  Face the wall and hide the full plan

May I point out this entire question is fundamentally broken.
I have absolute authority over the entire world? I order everyone to vote 'Approve' on me. "But wait!" you say, "You can't just order them to do that! They'll never listen to you!"
And that could be absolutely true. But if it is, then my authority is no longer absolute - in which case, no course I take will work, because anyone can elect to not follow it. I can't compel any group of people - nations, religions, corporations, the local elderly golfer's association - to do anything. And the second they realize that, they'll break off to pursue their own agendas.
At most, I can select one broad coalition who I think will work with me, and try to leverage a smaller group. But now we're just back to good ol' factionalism, and that's not a long-term winning solution.
- 🤫
  (if you keep pointing out plotholes, we aren't gonna have movies and tv shows anymore, so just um... shhhhh 😉)

Not what I would do, but the safest way is to villify then execute small and unpopular minorities (in the minority/majority sense) and then cater to the monolithic block that emerges. Super evil but it works.
- Any simple majority is, I suspect, systematically like this
- Lol that sounds like Germany in 1933. So horrible and immoral, but like... it worked. Dude has so much support and everyone else was just apathetic and didn't oppose him.

Easy instant death.
- But your entire family and your pets too...
  🤔
  
  You're the maniac who thinks half the world can agree on politics.

If I have absolute control of the media, this seems ridiculously simple. I've no interest in material possessions or the hoarding of wealth, so I'll implement large scale tax reform designed to reduce our current levels of income inequality, kill oil subsidies in favor of green tech investment, truly universal worldwide healthcare, and mandated percentage worker ownership of companies.
The problems of our world are manufactured by those currently in power in order to enrich themselves. While it might take a few generations to fix the communities plagued by religious toxicity with widespread access to a good, secular education, I truly believe that limiting the capitalist's ability to rape and pillage would be enough to maintain widespread popular support. Provided, of course, that those capitalists can't use their control of the media to discredit and slander me to the point people vote against their own self-interests.

No more homework, ice cream for everyone, bedtime is at midnight instead of 9
- No more homework
  Parents immediately disapprove, you dead
  💀

I press the red button and end it all.
Approval ratings don't matter anymore.
You're welcome.
- Damn, what did the animals do to deserve this?

How much control of the media do I have? Will fox news be all "president figjam helped raise 2 million people out of poverty with YOUR tax dollars!"
How frequent are the votes?
- You have absolute control of the media. However, keep in mind, if you start censoring things, people might not like it and "disapprove" of you, and if you have 50% disapprove and you're dead.
  Votes are basically always active.
  Basically like how social media has your "status" set like your mood being happy or sad. This is similar, but Approve or Disapprove.
  Once its set, it remains that way until changed. But people could also set it up so that it auto switch to "Disapprove" upon dying, as a dead man switch, to disincentivise you from killing people. And if someone dies before interacting with the voting system, its an automatic "Disapprove". (Basically, don't start doing massacres or your disapproval will rise)
  Basically, you live as long as less than 50% are "Disapprove" or if there are less than 50% of the votes submitted.
  "Abstain" doesn't count towards the approve/disapprove numbers, but does count towards the vote percentage. (Example: If you have 25% disapprove, 20% approve, 5% abstain, and the remaining have not yet interacted with the voting system, total vote count is 50%, and your disapproval (of those who voted) is higher, so you are dead.
  TLDR: There are no election cycles, you are constantly judged.

I would die pretty quickly, so I'd do as much good as I could in the time I had. Mostly tons of wealth transfer.

You must maintain 50% + 1 vote of "Approve", exactly 50% Approve / 50% Disapprove still means death for you. "Abstain" is not a vote means it isn't counted.
All the world's population is super diverse. Hard to convince them.
So my strategy is to maximise the Abstain voters, and then it's only a small group of actual voters that I need to convince for my actual ideas.
I manipulate people into believing that all this voting is something super special and complex and first you need to understand lots of things about the whole world before you will be able to make correct decisons etc. This is going to work because most of the world's population is rather uneducated, so they would feel quite inferior and always vote Abstain.
- But then if the actual voters don't like you you die. The whole thing becomes a lot more volatile.
  
  But then if the actual voters don't like you you die.
  No different than before.
  The whole thing becomes a lot more volatile.
  In my opinion it becomes a lot less volatile, because a smaller & less diverse group is easier to convince.
- I see, you're going with Operation Eagle Freedom, nice choice.
  
  No idea what that may be. I am just telling my own thoughts.

I would promise some pretty decent things. Then, secretly, hire a "shady" group of people (in exchange for loads of money) to design and implement a device that would eradicate the world via nuclear chain reaction, lock the device and give me control so that only I can activate it, give me the ability to set a trigger function so if i did die instantly, it would automatically activate.
Basically blackmail them into this approval rating BUT follow through with every promise. Which goes:
Divide the world into certain "geo-categories" where they will be transported and accommodated based on their values and governmental/economic ideals. Of course, this isn't perfect. There are possibly infinite combinations of "rights" people want today. Most would be modeled after existing countries. You can pick a country and move there. Any countries that have very similar governing styles would be linked in sub-governing bodies but not physically linked.
Most places would be complete with freedoms, but instead of democracies, they would apply to move to another jurisdiction that supports their views. Not forced but given financial accommodations and means to do so. I would appoint the leaders and from them on they will be voted on for the most part.
Vote for me: you get pretty much any freedoms, liberties, and rights. Equality and equity. Those who really want to live in a dictatorship sub-government would just move there, but I doubt anyone truly wants that. Other than that, I wouldn't control much just oversee every country's actions and maybe intervene in cases of natural disaster and to block proposals of war.
because of the elimination of economy types, all current money would be converted into a worldwide currency. No income tax. Everyone who worked would accumulate "points" and spend them. Trade would be free and worldwide, no tax whatsoever needed. No need for gold to back anything up if all countries will now be awarded these points based on the debt they are owed. Prices of common necessities and commodities needed for life would have price caps. No limit on how low a price can be. Monopolies can exist with a requirement to donate substantial amounts to charities and a fund to be given to a jurisdiction's government to find a business to become new competition which would then eliminate the monopoly. So, the incentive to not monopolize would be that they would have to fund any future competition for a while until things get closer to a balance.
Healthcare is provided as a percentage of income rather than any fixed rate. This allows medical professionals to still be paid efficiently, but everything is affordable. Everything can be turned into a percent based payment plan and based on household income. All factors of monthly expenses: bills, food, etc will be considered. So, if you are injured, you can't afford that vacation anymore because that isn't a necessary expense and some of that will be factored into payment plans.
Everyone's credit is converted into a percent of 100. 100 percent being that they always pay on time-- including utility bills. Anyone with bad or negative credit or any hits to their credit will be reset to zero. To build back to 100 would take an average of a year. All debt will be awarded to collectors and debtors as points with no loss to those who owe. They would then be reset to zero credit. New debt would work the same as today but must be paid back as a percentage from now on and cannot be a financial burden or it will be paused. Wages will be garnished based on a percent in this manner. In other words polel will always be able to afford any basic living expenses. Debt does not include mortgages, or loans to be forgiven but converted into a percentage payment plan. If someone accrued many types of percentage based payment plans for debt, such as medical, home, car etc, it will be calculated only after basic expenses are paid. (Housing, utilities, food, transportation to work, school for children)
Money will be made by working, selling things or awarded in cases of disability or retirement. All retirement ages would be the same--60 yrs old.
All businesses' worth will be converted into these global points. (Name of currency to be determined)
Basically everyone and every entity's wealth will be the same just in a universal currency. Probably the currency unit that is worth the most every thing would be measured against and converted and then all converted to this universal one.
Laws will be changed based on common sense of leaders which can be freely elected for one year at a time for all positions and most countries. If you create a dictatorship, the laws have to be fair and cannot restrict travel.
Rights to bear arms would be upheld on a condition of no criminal history. All would have trackers that are designed to emit a signal and if broken (and no longer emitting) would flag a system and would be confiscated. Any public areas would alert a system if any armed individual enters that area. This is to stop sub-governments from initiating any corrupt control acts. Police would be government funded, require yearly license renewals and an annual mental health and competency test. Free of charge.
All education would include funding based on a fee that is also a percentage, so you won't be broke. Language classes for immigrants would be free.
Since all money would be digital and points based, it could be given infinitely by the government. Trade would be free. A country would export and automatically get points from the other government without the other government losing money. There would be no way to just give money for no reason. It would either be from trade, work, or selling a product or service based on an unhackable machine locked with the security of the global government, me. (A bio key, perhaps)
This would require a little extra trust between sub-governments to not exploit the system and freely give points( for example based on a trade scam where a country could set a price and the government can just give points for it without losing money) it will be audited monthly by use of an advanced AI algorithm. All trade will be based on demand (and supply obviously).
If something is rare, there would be a price cap increase for trade.
So, you are making an observation that money here is less valuable, right? Well, the government can't give any money without a justification for it being earned. Also there will be import caps based on supply and population, so no one buys out an entire country's monthly export supply.
I may have overlooked some flaws but it will evolve.
Or
Don't vote for me: RIP earth.
- Lol, chaotic, lovely.
  Also what did the animals on the planet ever do to you? Animals can't vote ye know?
  
  But look at the bright side. All of my promises will be kept. No one has to perish. After all, if I can't refuse of course I am going to make it so they can't either.

Establish a system where voting Approve provides tangible personal benefits, Abstaining remains a safe, comfortable default, and Disapproving results in immediate personal drawbacks. Maintain a decent standard of living, encourage open non-violent expression, and quickly address problems so people rarely feel compelled to choose Disapprove. By making Approval the path to greater prosperity, Abstention harmless, and Disapproval costly, the majority either Approve or simply do nothing, ensuring that discontent never coherently organizes into a mass disapproval large enough to threaten your life.

You cannot refuse this...
Yeah, no, I'm refusing this, dying sounds less compliment, and yeah, I did read the rules.

I'd rather die. But while we're at it, I'll make it my goal to get everyone to vote against me. The world will at least have a taste of unity against a common enemy for once. It shouldn't be difficult anyway.

Universal healthcare for all.

Keep saying I'll make things better but never take the political risks necessary to actually do it. Give the financial industry everything it wants.

Free cheesesticks for everyone!

Year 1: Eliminate Food and Water poverty.
Year 2: Porn is legalized everywhere, and there's a world government official porn site that's always free. Free smartphones for everyone as well.
Year 3: Universal Housing and sewage.
Year 4: Sex work is legalized everywhere (this might be popular enough to coast you an extra year) and ensured to be safe for the sex workers.
Year 5: Universal Child care
Year 6: Drugs are legalized everywhere
Year 7: Universal Elderly care (+ free healthcare for the USA weirdo country)
Year 8: Universal Education and media translation to top 10 most spoken languages. Also the top media franchises of each existing country will be freely available online now as well in a "cultural digital vault".
Year 9: Eliminate country borders, issue new universal passport, set up new cultural ethnic / geographical regions instead that exist only to help with political and business management. Begin 5 year disposable plastics phase out (medical exception though), eliminate plastics and pseudoplastics from foods and cosmetics, Worldwide public transportation system + Continental Hypertrain System project. Set up a world government that can only be compromised of elected STEM degree holders that have a job in their role, and bars anyone that has ever owned / owned a company or worked in any petroleum based industry. Esperanto is also more the official world government language, Linux and FOSS official world government software usage, and lawyers can now only work under the government for fixed rate. Everyone has access to a lawyer by right. These foundational laws cannot be changed.
Also announce I have been contacted by extraterrestrial life, and was told they will greet us if we survive the great filter and set up solar system wide travel and infrastructure as a species. Oh, and limit wealth/assets to be no higher than 200 million euros equivalent (inflation adjusted) worth. There will be a new currency set up as well.
Year 10: Announce I'm "retiring" from direct rule but will intervene if 57% of the world votes for me to enact something. Die probably. If the alien and world government gambit does pay off, maybe coast off previous popularity for a couple years and just have fun until summoned or dead.

Send out a mailer periodically to everyone in the world say how your government helped you and your family this week.
Pay a bunch of influencers to speak nuanced praise. Yes, it's a propaganda machine, but without one, disapproval would arise based on completely non-factual bases.
Institute a fair taxing system, that allows successful people to get reasonably far ahead, to a limit, but does not leave others behind at their expense.
Train up a large joint military exclusively in de-escalation and disaster response. Squabbles between belligerent parties would just be flooded with this neutral force to mediate the issue and ease tensions as quickly as possible.
Tackle worldwide issues of health and disease, climate change, food security, shelter, social mobility, education, transport. Each country would be incentivized to make their own countries' resilient, but other neighbours would chip in resources if one is falling behind or is hit by disaster. Institute worldwide minimum safety standards for all labourers and empower individuals to report unsafe conditions.
Slowly modify religion (release new versions of the Bible, Quran etc. that remain mostly true to their origins but emphasize the "be nice to each other" parts and remove the "kill anyone that doesn't believe this/doesn't follow these rules to the letter" parts). Bring leaders of these religions together to discuss promoting inter-religious peace.
Hold annual community pride, national pride and world pride days, to celebrate humanity's accomplishments, establish unity and comradery with your neighbours, and an opportunity to give casual feedback to your local authorities, national authorities, and me (before they hit the disapprove switch, hehe).

Weekly richest person in the world slaughter.

spend most of the budget on propaganda & surveillance. let everyone see what they want, create fake accounts that will only be shown to certain people that make points about my competition that they disagree with. Also engage in pop culture. Then, create an utopia. If I fail miserably, I have a portible panic button which will launch every singe nuclear bomb and destroy the whole planet.

Make up some bs problems and be the one to fix them, I suppose

build a childhood museum early on
change all industry buildings from sweat shop to easy does it
enact the Bribe Faction Leaders, Food for the People, Free Housing, National Day, Social Security, Hola Presidente, Sensitivity Training, Papal Visit, and Pollution Standards edicts
make sure average pay is above Caribbean pay
use the cathedral to claim any Tropicans that are peacefully protesting me are heretics
have a nuclear weapons program to protect against invasion from the US and USSR
ensure diverse food and entertainment
hold all scheduled elections and give a speech every each one acknowledging the lowest happiness variable and promising to do something about it, while also praising the least happiest faction

Semi-frequent 'Adjustments' as needed, high corporate/wealth taxes, universal health care, actually using the empty homes to solve the housing crisis

Free blowjobs
That's 50% taken care of now for the 1 extra vote to stay alive, how hard could it be to please a single woman ......
- you won't hit the 50%, since there's more women overall
  (it's all the grandmas, they live longer)
  edit : grandma approves of your proposal and asks " teeth or no teeth? "

Rig the approve system.

Eradicate poverty and cars. Hey guess what drivers, you hate driving, that's why you rush until it's over. So I'll make public transit so fast and reliable that driving will finally be treated as primitive as it actually is.
Free apartments for all. Luxury apartments cost money. Unwanted, dangerous, and unpleasant jobs are automated with AI.
All debt is forgiven and you have a clean slate. Everyone now has a credit score of 700. Kickstart your best life.
Happy population means more locally owned businesses, less crime, less mental illness, less of a declining birth rate.
- All debt? Does that include companies too?
  They’ve borrowed at least billions to grow their businesses, and that sort of money won’t just disappear without a trace. In this case, the trace would probably include economic instability of some sort. There’s a reason why central banks use interest rate to influence borrowing and inflation.
- Hey guess what drivers, you hate driving
  I love driving. That’s why I have two cars. A nice, comfortable, efficient, daily driver that makes my commute nice. And a fun car, for when I want fun.
  
  Ah yes, the classic "driving is fun, it's just The People that make it stressful". How many people did you swear at on the road this month? And how many pedestrians did you beep at or inch towards while they were crossing the street?

How often do these vote cycles occur? I would argue that most distuptive changes will make things worse before they change to the better.
Ending capitalism, forgiving all debt etc. will lead to huge chaos in the short and medium term. Even thought in the long term, it might turn into a much better system, you'd need a lot of time to rebuild society and people to see the positive in it.
I think that's also an issue of today's democracies. If you're elected, you have just a relatively short period of time before the next election. If you aim for big reforms, you might be still in the 'make things worse' phase after the first legislation period and people will vote for an opposing party. They undo everything you did, again making things worse without ever achieving their own vision.
- Basically, in this hypothetical, people jusr submit a "approve" or "disapprove" via their brain implant, and it gets instantly gets counted (for "plot magic" reasons okay). Once submitted, it remains that way until the person change it. It can be changed any time.
  Example: In the morning, they see news of you giving out money to everyone, check their bank and voila money, they are happy and they vote "Approve". In the afternoon, they get news report of you are helping minorities, and oopsie the same person is also a racist and didn't like that you are helping the minorites which they hate, so they change it to "Disapprove". People could also set it to automatically change to "Disapprove" upon death in order to disincentivise you ordering their execution. If they never summitted any votes, and they die, its also a "Disapprove".
  TLDR: There are no "election cycles" you are constantly being judged.
  
  Then, I think your best chances of survival would be being as invisible as possible. Only react to urgent issues, don't address systematic issues and if you're forced to give a statement, remain vague and unclear. It's not great for society in the longterm but I think any disruptive change will make people confused, annoyed, insecure or angry. Even though they get used to the change quickly or even like it, instant voting will be your death sentence.
  Another strategy may be to distract people from issues. Sport events, drugs, parties, censorship. Keep up the illusion of everything going well while the world goes down the drain.
- Literally the whole process the US just endured. (And has been enduring, and will probably continue to endure) (Please help)

Well, I don't really mind death, and no pets or dependants, and I feel humans have had their run, order sterilisation of everyone all ages. Don't want to kill anyone, just puff out over time, we had our run. Time for something else to have a shot.

I don't. Nobody has the magical ability to make anyone listen to them.

I get convicted for rape and fraud. We have empirical evidence that it works.

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