What business or industries would collapse first if humans failed to lie and present false information?
If humans failed ability to lie WHAT fields would collapse first?
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What business or industries would collapse first if humans failed to lie and present false information?
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Lawyers
Lawyers and criminals
Economics
Logistics.
Politicians
Politics
All of society, as we know it. Practically everything that comes to your mind.
Not only politics. Or country relations. Practically all relations of any kind.
Fashion and cosmetologists.
Advertising and marketing. Attention merchants
Marriage
Psycology
Stock exchange.
Reposts
Whatever field is dedicated to constantly reposting these questions
Essentially anyone trying to sell anything.
I think influencers and some celebrities too cause people would see their real face
The US government.
Government
Law enforcement!
Solicitors but the justice system would thrive
politicians and lawyers
Estate Agents/realtors.
Actors.
The job is literally pretending to be someone you are not.
Pure maths, because we’re lying to ourselves that this field isn’t a complete waste of time
Comedians. Some of their material is not their own experience or have heavily dramatized the stories to entertain the audience.
Anywhere that employees minimum wage service workers.
The entire field of marketing
Marriage Councillors.
I see this question asked every day here. Honestly whatever botfarm is triggering them.
“Journalism” as it is today.
Politics
Politics
Mister Bon’s life
The Invention of Lying already covered this topic haha
Psychiatry
Advertising, sales, religions
Acting; is lying.
So TV shows and movies would become documentaries.
You can’t even write a fiction story without making things up.
Women’s beauty products.
Politicians and all religions
Consulting
Truthfully I don’t think there would be anything that would fail. All industries would adapt. Would there be a learning curve? Sure. What would happen is transparency and accountability would be less of a problem. Well we would have a huge disparity however between those who are good people and those who are not. Those that let hatred and violence into themselves would be exposed and dashed out. Those who naturally do not want to put effort into their actions and/or want to better themselves we would see those people probably end up in squalor while those that wanted to try and do their best would thrive. There would be a polarization however I think more and more people would be helped than hurt in the long run.
The problem with this premise is that it is assumed that there professions which inherently rely on lying.
This really isn’t true. What would happen is a good number of people who might be considered good at various jobs would not be very good at them anymore
Most of the professions believed to suffer in the face of mandatory honesty would actually thrive according to their intended purpose
Lawyers would be limited to arguing the facts and advocating for their client with no inherent advantage over one another in sophistry or bending truths (to say lawyers make a habit of lying is actually pretty unfair, lawyers that are caught lying go down hard)
Politicians would be a much less flashy job in public service with very shrewd and pragmatic policy proposals. A person can only campaign on popular ideas can only do so with a fundamental belief in that idea a solid plan on how to execute it meaning much better Governance
Sales proposals would always be based on what can deliver the best product while in turn consumer confidence would always be peak
The only reason so many industries are mired with dishonesty is honesty can be driven out. But honesty is the hallmark of quality
That’s why the dishonest try to emulate it
Professional poker
Healthcare
Human Resources
Scammers
The State
Defense.
The internet
Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Politics would probably be the first to fall apart without lies
MAGA
The government
pundit media
Car sales
People say lawyers, but lawyers are perhaps the only ones that would keep their jobs, because they know how to functionally lie but technically tell the truth.
Scientists. All most postulate are theories designed to lengthen their tenure. And not worth the paper they were written on. If they only spoke the truth, their theories would be full of “I dont know’s” and half-truths.