Im old enough to remember that people thinking NSA/CIA is watching everyone's internet activity were universally considered deranged schizophrenics.
Whatever fears we have about privacy always turn out to be grossly optimistic underestimates. The next step is, of course, that these emergency measures will remain in place forever.
Interesting. So 50 years ago, with labour efficiency and productivity being a small fraction of what it is today, single-family houses were easily built and bought by people.
Today its somehow an unreachable goal that people cant obtain. Why? I dont want to live in a pod or communal flat with 20 people. How are people not revolting over the direction western economies are taking?
Wait, so how does he expect to fight capitalism, if all he'd be allowed to do was always logged and observed bank wire transfers?
Thats rather shortsighted.
That's because you know you cannot compete. Ironically, this kind of crab-in-the-bucket egalitarianism is a form of selfish self-interest on your part.
It is backed by cost of electrical consumption.
Its just that 90% of its value is speculation. But it absolutely does have "real value" and is backed by material reality.