#Deep Fakes
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Shadow Economy & Second Class Citizens
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the reality of every major developed country in the world having a large shadow economy as well as a group of people best described as second-class citizens which are off the books but do all the dangerous and challenging work. We talk about the direct and indirect impacts of these shadow economies, who benefits and pays the price, and, in general, the overall morality of this reality. With big data, surveillance, and high-tech methods, the shadow economy could be eliminated or dramatically reduced, but this never seems to play out, which begs the question, who benefits?
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Deep Fakes & The Future of Reality
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the cultural, social, and individual implications of how Deep Fake and related technologies threaten reality itself. Virtual, augmented, mixed, and other emerging realities may soon be capable of creating a blurred line between digital and analog reality and what that might mean for society. We also look at the USA government as a Kleptocracy, or otherwise a collection of industrial complexes that creates financial socialism for the ultra-wealthy and brutal free-market capitalism for everyone else. Perhaps it is time for a long-needed counterculture to emerge to help transition us toward a human industrial complex, one that puts people over profit and helps transition government power away from the Kleptocrats and back to We The People.
