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This Company Embeds Microchips in Its Employees, and They Love It (technologyreview.com)
Last August, 50 employees at Three Square Market got RFID chips in their hands. Now 80 have them. From a report: The idea came about in early 2017, president of Three Square Market Patrick McMullan says, when he was on a business trip to Sweden -- a country where some people are getting subcutaneous microchips to do things like enter secure buildings or book train tickets. It's one of very few places where chip implants, which have been around for quite a while, have taken off in some fashion. The chips he and his employees got are about the size of a very large grain of rice. They're intended to make it a little easier to do things like get into the office, log on to computers, and buy food and drinks in the company cafeteria. Like many RFID chips, they are passive -- they don't have batteries, and instead get their power from an RFID reader when it requests data from the chip.
A year into their experiment, McMullan and a few employees say they are still using the chips regularly at work for all the activities they started out with last summer. Since then, an additional 30 employees have gotten the chips, which means that roughly 80 of the company's now 250 employees, or nearly a third, are walking, talking cyborgs. "You get used to it; it's easy," McMullan says. As far as he knows, just two Three Square Market employees have had their chips removed -- and that was when they left the company.
A year into their experiment, McMullan and a few employees say they are still using the chips regularly at work for all the activities they started out with last summer. Since then, an additional 30 employees have gotten the chips, which means that roughly 80 of the company's now 250 employees, or nearly a third, are walking, talking cyborgs. "You get used to it; it's easy," McMullan says. As far as he knows, just two Three Square Market employees have had their chips removed -- and that was when they left the company.
They're not "walking, talking cyborgs". They are just chipped like cats and dogs.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
Everyone in the concentration camp will get a chip.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I get chipped.
Chips are for pets and property. Get one if you're looking to join the 21st century chattel slavery.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Translation: 170 employees out of 250 told him to take his idea and get buggered.
then I'm happy for them.
not me, with potential for mob rule making this a requirement
love is just extroverted narcissism
with great big quotes. You don't want to be a spoil sport, do you? Be a team player and get chipped like everyone else.
I'm left thinking of Hijabs and how they're voluntary in a lot of countries, even though there's enormous societal pressure for women to wear them. I've been watching a lot of Genetic Skeptic on youtube, hence the thought train, but there are other examples. Like "indentured servitude" where you sell yourself into slavery or for a slightly less controversial aspect how about standing for the national anthem. There's just lots and lots of things that are technically voluntary but very much not.
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I'm sure there are a few industries where shoving a microchip under your skin would be "better" than simply wearing a bracelet with the same chip...but, I mean, why implant it? Sure it won't get lost, but seriously. Take some responsibility of your secrets and wear it instead of injecting it semi-permanently. I just don't see the point (aside from the aforementioned few industries).
Give the user the choice to take it off.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
If I put a gun to someone's head and tell them "either you obey or you die", is that voluntary? If I put an economic system to someone's stomach, and tell them "either you obey or you can't feed yourself", is that voluntary?
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If they do force everyone into a "cashless" society, and your money is tied to you and your chip, well, then they have FULL control on you.
Act in a manner that doesn't suit the govt....you are cut off from money and you possessions, and finally, your rights.
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
And you start voluntary, maybe with a carrot in front of you.....and as the saying goes:
"What one generation accepts.....the next generation embraces".
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
And therein lies the path to slavery and servitude...
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
not me, with potential for mob rule making this a requirement
But then it's not voluntary, which was GPs stipulation.
...or is this a case of "You better pretend to love it, and say that you love it- OR ELSE!" I don't believe for a second that each and every one of those employees 'love' it, and not one thinks otherwise.
One has to wonder what prompted this passage in revelation though.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Company presidents come up with stupid ideas and justify them all the time by saying nobody objects.
You're the president, you moron. Nobody is going to object to your pet project unless they want to get fired, demoted, or put on the eternal "troublemaker" list.