Mastodawn

We really have to stop uncritically accepting the batshit drivel that billionaires come up with. Their main qualification is exploiting people at scale to enrich themselves with power and money, and they will do and say anything to keep it that way, especially if they pitch it as "the future."

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Rastal

@zackwhittaker Citizens being on their best behaviour due to monitoring them only works in "shame" based societies like China. It doesn't work in "guilt" based societies like anywhere in the West.

In UK for example, you can watch and openly film a bike thief with an angle grinder breaking a bike lock and stealing the bike in broad daylight, and the thief couldn't care less. That's the mentality. In fact, often the mentality is to commit crime precisely because it's on camera, for street cred.