The real paperclip scenario: man tries to get his parking ticket dismissed. Many of these systems are made to be human-interacted. There’s going to be a bit of a golden age in the short term but doubtless prices will rise to compensate for increased customer calls or services will require some sort of rate-limiting structure or something else. Curious to see what happens.
A parking ticket is a complex, derivative construct. To make it go away one can simply destroy any of the systems it depends on, such as the monetary system, law, etc.
Hopefully that's not the shortest path to that goal though!
When I worked as a postman, I once delivered a stack — almost knee high — of legal fines to a man in a very poor street. I'm wondering if he ever made them go away. I still remember the look on his face.
