Asklemmy

Living wages in exchange for work.

Instead of mandatory military service like some countries have, people should have mandatory public work for two years. Whether it be labor, clerical/administrative, etc, it could help young people learn a new skill, get guaranteed work to get the started, and could potentially save a ton in taxes. It would also create the opportunity to start getting caught up some things that keep getting swept under the rug like bridge maintenance , etc.

Phones should shoot landscape video even when they’re held vertically.

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For me, there would be public holidays that celebrate social, cultural and scientific achievements.

A day of printing, the decoding of the human genome,... you know - real achievements, not only stories of some ancient folks being tortured to death and such.

A button on the TV that would make the remote beep so you can find it

Copyright should go back to 14 years.

Nonprofit versions of vital social tech. If I had the money sitting around, I'd love to start a nonprofit dating site/app. I met my wife on OKC in 2011 before it got bought up and enshittified. It was great and wasn't geared toward just keeping you engaged (they're soooooo bad now!). You'd probably have to gatekeep it with a small fee to disincentive bots, but with a relatively small investment, you could create something really useful for folks without preying on anyone's desperation.

Signal would be a good model for this sort of thing.

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Turn-based King of the Hill RPG

Parking lot lights, that are in/ on each space. That indicates if there is a space available…. Less driving around the lot looking for a space

When you get to baggage claim, if you then stand directly at the carousel blocking everyone's view for more than 10 seconds, trap door opens and a system of pneumatic tubes forcibly jettisons you to the furthest point away in the airport for you to walk back.

Stand back, wait for your luggage to appear, then approach and get your bag and step back to the perimeter.

To get my VC funding in 2024, id also pitch that it "has AI" which is just facial recognition and if you get jettisoned twice in the same year, the third time goes into a shark pit or scorpion pit.

A robot goose with AI controlled steering

If you don't put your shopping cart away, a turret on the roof of the grocery should just fucking shoot you.

If you play music on a speaker, on public transit, the bus driver should just fucking shoot you

You know how the FTC recently banned non-compete clauses (for non-senior roles)?

They should ban the, 'and other unspecified duties as required' clauses too.

Prostitution legalized everywhere, with a clean and safe presentation. And nobody should judge people for it in neither side.

Is a functional government based on logic and compassion too much to ask/too cliché?

Renters rights legislation with enough teeth to make present and perspective landlords, both corporate and individual, think twice before not taking care of a property as though they lived there? (Yes, there are stories behind this one)

I guess a company that actually pays me what I'm worth (which I'm not even really looking for that much).

Customer focused companies. A middle ground between non-profit and for profit.

A law that prohibits labels from being too sticky that you can't reuse the packaging. For example, I should absolutely be able to easily peel off the labels from empty wine bottles and glass jars so I can reuse them.

Voting days should be mandatory holidays

Good bluetooth earbuds that are Apple earbud shaped (or an approximation far enough away to not be sued.) There's litterally "airpods," "cheap shitty airpod knockoffs," and then the largest category "skullcandy types with the bullshit in ear inserts." There's plenty of quality ones in the skullcandy style, and idk if I just have a tight earussy but they do not fit in my holes.

I've got another one: make Mother's and Father's Days paid work holidays!

Mandatory housing units over every strip mall and big box store in America.

Even just a few units. Hell a few mobile homes up there even would go a long way. Forced mixed use development.

I feel like you'd probably enjoy wandering through the halfbakery...

All billionaires in electric chairs.

I think there should be pedestrian, bike routes separate from cars, like storefronts should face both ways, and the intersections with signals, but where practical should have bridges for the walkers, so they don't have to deal with the cars.

I also really want replicator tech, want to be able to use any input to get basically any output, at least in terms of materials. Throw in the trash, it is sorted into its component elements (safely) and then those can be combined to make clean water, salt water, building materials, whatever.

I want also a floor and walls that eat the dirt, and clothing fabric that can cool even in humidity.

Retirement should be 45

Tie more positive things to the federal minimum wage, for example tax brackets and retirement fund contribution limits. They go up every single year, so the government will either have to keep raising the minimum wage or go on the record to justify why the ratio is wrong.

Every airline seat should be fixed at the reclined position