{"id":2719,"date":"2014-02-07T14:12:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T14:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2014-02-07T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T14:12:34","slug":"democracy-3-social-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2014\/02\/07\/democracy-3-social-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy 3: Social Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sooo.. I slipped this in\u00a0 a bit under the radar yesterday because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2014\/02\/06\/democracy-3-50-weekend-sale-directsteam\/\">amazing 50% off deal this weekend for Democracy 3<\/a>, but you may have noticed that Democracy 3 now has an expansion pack\/DLC\/whatever we call it these days. That expansion is called &#8216;Social Engineering&#8217;, and I talk about it in my relaxed and charismatic yet fascinating way in the video below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/540w8vbBJ5k?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For those who skip the video, first of all note you can grab the expansion from my site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/democracy3\/socialengineering.html\">here<\/a> or on steam <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/274050\">here<\/a>. It&#8217;s $4.99. basically it&#8217;s a policy &amp; dilemma pack which adds 26 policies and 8 new dilemmas, but not randomly, more on a theme of &#8216;social engineering&#8217;, in other words, all those subtle imperceptible ways in which society is shaped by the government. The main game already has the &#8216;big blunt instruments&#8217; like income tax and spending on health care, but this pack has the slow-burn stuff like public awareness campaigns and cycling subsidies. It also has policies that encourage entrepreneurship and a pro-business mindset from a\u00a0 young age, and many of the policies take ages to take their affect.<\/p>\n<p>This whole area is a thought-experiment hobby for me. One of my whimsical policy ideas if I was UK Prime Minister would be to reduce the temperature of all government buildings in winter to encourage people to wear warmer clothing. NOT just because it would save money &amp; the environment, but because it would remind people in general that *in winter, you dress warmer*. This is a lesson the UK has forgotten. From what I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-12606943\">read<\/a>: average indoor temperatures have risen from 12C in 1970 to about 17.5C (63.5F) today. Thats a huge increase in energy expenditure, and it doesn&#8217;t surprise me one bit. Recently, a government minister had the &#8216;cheek&#8217; to suggest that in cold weather people put on warmer clothes. he was hounded for it, but it&#8217;s just common sense. Personally I think government should be more about this (long term influencing the behavior of society for the common good) and less arguing about relatively trivial tax\/benefit changes that amount to under 1% of government income\/expenditure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, hope you like the expansion pack :D<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sooo.. I slipped this in\u00a0 a bit under the radar yesterday because of the amazing 50% off deal this weekend for Democracy 3, but you may have noticed that Democracy 3 now has an expansion pack\/DLC\/whatever we call it these days. That expansion is called &#8216;Social Engineering&#8217;, and I talk about it in my relaxed<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Democracy 3: Social Engineering<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2014\/02\/07\/democracy-3-social-engineering\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}