Francisco retweetledi
It's been about a year ago since I launched a site called 🇵🇹 Only In Portugal to journal the crazy issues we've experienced as foreigners moving to Portugal with both governments agencies and businesses here, most of them quite Kafka-esque in nature
Of course everyone's reaction is "why don't you leave?"
But it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, which has incredible potential
And it's nicer to fix things, and while complaining about things doesn't make you popular (I've received many death threats), it is oddly effective if you do it in the public sphere:
Collectively complaining about things, as we've seen with Google (they stopped self-sabotaging and are now the leader in AI), the European Union (they are passing laws based on @euacc points), and even Apple (Tim Cook finally quit), does fix things, eventually!
So I'm trying the same with Portugal
I feel AI governance has a lot of potential, AI can be quite a neutral party that can look at issues and find solutions in a very pragmatic and non-partisan way
So I've asked AI to analyze over 300 issues, stories and experiences submitted to my site in the last 12 months, and write an deep analysis report how to fix Portugal in the next 5 years: every argument it makes is based on real experiences from real people , so no AI hallucinations
AI believes all issues here are based on 5 core problems:
- The Portuguese government is too expensive and too slow to interact with
- There aren't enough skilled workers and no incentive to become one
- There is zero accountability anywhere in the system
- Technology adoption is 15–20 years behind
- The tax system punishes productive people and rewards evasion
(P.S. of course many of Portugal's issues are a microcosm of Europe's macro issues)
AI then created a 5-Year Action Plan to solve it:
YEAR 1 — Shock Therapy
1.1 Flatten the Tax System
1.2 Nuke the Immigration Agency, Build a Digital Replacement
1.3 Gut the Public Sector Bureaucracy
1.4 The Accountability Law
YEAR 2 — Infrastructure Blitz
2.1 Lisbon Airport
2.2 Digital Infrastructure
2.3 Healthcare Triage
YEAR 3 — Culture Shift
3.1 Skilled Trades Academy
3.2 Animal Welfare & Noise Enforcement
3.3 Court Reform
YEAR 4 — Economic Acceleration
4.1 Housing
4.2 Transport
4.3 Consumer Protection
YEAR 5 — Consolidation
5.1 Measure Everything
5.2 Cultural Campaigns
5.3 The Exit Metric
Of course the next challenge is how do you get this to politicians, but we did this with @euacc before, so we can surely do it in Portugal too!
You can read the full action plan in the reply below!
@levelsio@levelsio
🇵🇹 A good time to finally launch portugalstory.co where we anonymously record the incredibly Kafka-esque experiences with bureaucracy and companies here Your stories are kept 100% anonymous If we want to improve things, good to record what isn't good!
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