LOL, well yes, but mostly for conservation purposes, I think.

Uh-huh. Don’t push sources known to be at best questionable.

Well, I put this as side to look closer and respond intelligently, and never really took that time.

Based on your response and the fact I’m not going to analyze your earlier post and my response more deeply, I’m going to acknowledge that I likely misinterpreted your intent given I agree with most of this particular comment’s apparent intent.

TL;DR;

I probably misunderstood you and apologize for the accusation.

Well, just because our leadership is reprehensible, does not mean we are all like that.

Do what America did until recently: welcome those who bring value to your society regardless of their origin. Many awesome people left horrible leaders to become huge assets to their new homes.

For example: Einstein, half of Hollywood between 1933 and 1945.

Our leaders are throwing away one of our greatest strengths. Don’t make the same stupid self defeating mistake.

All that trauma led to the Marshall plan and is why American currency is the world reserve currency.

Our top tax rate was 90% until the mid 60’s to pay for that and the cost of the world war we initially wanted to avoid entering.

Like it or not, the reason the U.S. system dominates now is that we built it at great cost (investment) to connect and support the developed world after massive devastation initiated on Europeans by Europeans.

The goal was to connect everybody in mutual benefit in order to avoid another such war.

We are all culpable for current conditions and faults. Sure, we benefitted from that aid to Europe, but not at the expense of the other participants and not without sacrifice.

We learned from the aftermath of the first world war, when we collectively punished Germany to the point of their desperation and enabled the rise of Nazism as a response to crualty.

Yes, the victors’ revenge and punishment brought forth hatred, cruelty, and unfathomable horror.

Now those Germans are the backbone of European wealth generation and upstanding members of the world community. I’d say that’s a rather good outcome of post_war policy. Similar is true of Japan and Italy.

Well, China basically implemented the cashless regime years ago, if memory serves.

Another reason to move to Europe.

You did it when you spent a considerable amount of space explaining how sexual abuse is different because these abusers don’t think they’re doing anything wrong, so society needs a way to police them.

This was the bulk of your response to being against total public surveilance. You also didn’t explicitly agree or disagree with my assertion.

Instead you gave an explanation of the problems of criminality in society, asserted that something had to be done, and presented a huge cultural shift as the solution.

This neatly leaves the uncareful reader to potentially conclude that the surveilance is a reasonable approach to deal with an intractable social problem.

However, it really is not an intractable problem. it is a hypersensitivity to a horrific behavior that gets eyeballs in our truly fucked up profit-driven media system that thrives on manipulating our often morbid curiosity.

It is the constant airing of these events twenty four hours a day. If there are only 24 cases of such behavior on the planet in a single day, you will hear about it. That is 24 out of 9 billion people. Clearly evidence of the horrific cruelty of most humans, and particularly men, right? We have to do something to protect the innocent (insert women, children depending on the nature of the intractable problem).

Our history is littered with authoritarian movements making people believe the reality of a few bad actors is rampant cross society and is due to the “other”. They rally the weak willed foolish into destroying freedom, individuality, and life for their dear leaders’ enrichment, all while believing their moral certainty is unassailable.

Rationalizing the mass surveillance by claiming people rationalize their bad behavior (no way to really know that) is a very bad approach.

Rule of law is concrete. If one thinks they’re a good person while both taking someone else’s agency and breaking a felony-level law, that is on them. Taking away everybody else’s freedom and privacy because some people are narcissistic sociopaths is the kind of thing authoritarian narcissistic sociopaths do to get and maintain control.

We don’t have to instill in the minds of anyone anything other than basic human empathy and an understanding of the Golden Rule as a starting point of social interaction.

People forget that the surveilling party can be narcissistic sociopaths like anybody else. The difference is the scale of damage they can do.

This is global. My town is installing Flock cameras to “stop dangerous speeding and red-light running”. Never mind that it also is networked with every single other camera, reads license plates, and use AI to track people everywhere they go. There’s no danger, though. That’s just coincidence…

So your take-away from this article about a surveillance tool that seeks patterns of behavior and movement amongst hundreds of random people in a public space is “those privileged men will do anything to remain unaccountable” for… minding their business on in the tube, mall, or sidewalk? This is waaaayyy bigger than that level of bigotry, and in fact pandering to that very bigotry is exactly the tool used to get 51% of the population on board with implementing it without considering the very real consequences for them.

Use AI, learn the methods, tools, uses. Then keep working through the process yourself like you do now with AI as a partner who sometimes flakes out.

Remind yourself of the tenents of critical thinking regularly. Never just accept what AI tells you. seek proof behind the answers. Think through those answers to ensure you understand the logic behind them.

Fight complacency.

We can’t ignore this. We need to know how it is done if we want to earn salaries. Reality rarely makes a dent in the corporate herd until years later.

By then, careers are obliterated.

There are ways to protect your mind in the meantime.

Yes, I couldn’t find one when my old LG from 2012 died. I did not activate wifi, added TV antenna. I already have Chromecast TV so I’m tracked enough, thanks.

The cost of using a phone. “In love” is what I wrote and the keyboard decided I meant involve. Just to write this, I had to correct the corrections twice.

Ask a finance pro why they went into finance. If you don’t get the same answer, they are lying.

Anyway, I fell involve with computers and programing at 13 years old, and nothing else appealed to me, so guess what I became?