User blog comment:Maslab/Against All Odds Stuff/@comment-663564-20100331191011

I see your point. I'll take out the forced military service part.

And the AI don't really monitor your bank accounts so much as what you put in them, like any modern bank. Did you know that if you put a certain amount of money in to a bank they are required to report it? In the U.S.? This is simply an extension of this system.

Also, I would make this argument: Would you rather have a brain surgeon operate on you because he wants to help or because he wants to make a lot of money? Sure, you may have less brain surgeons in today's society, but let's consider this possibility: The education is essentially free, now. All you have to have is the drive and the will to do it. Like any modern society, except without being forced to fill out several dozen scholarship forms. If you can do the work and you have the brains, they will give you the education you need. You just need to do the work.