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Comment by deckard1 | Hacker News Reader

Which all comes from taxing... Jeff Bezos?

This all feels like we're sleepwalking into a nightmarish hell far beyond A Brave New World or 1984. Amazon, drones, mass surveillance, erosion of privacy. The day will come when we no longer can opt out.

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No, it's probably going to take a very fundamental reorganization of the economy. I can't see labour continuing along the path of increasing irrelevancy and the concentration of wealth continuing to increase as it has without something breaking

Or perhaps a utopia like Star Trek where material needs are accounted for and people are free to pursue what they want instead of what they need.

To get to such a utopia, radical redistribution of wealth would have to be politically acceptable. This is not even close to being the case in the US.

Or maybe even comes from ultra-rich people voluntarily deciding to fund one or more states' basic income, purely because they have nothing else to do with their money.

> The day will come when we no longer can opt out.

That day already came a long time ago. Even those of us who do everything we can to avoid the surveillance end up being sold out (often inadvertently) by those we know when they share information about us or have their contact lists harvested. That's without even getting into the data Google/Facebook/Amazon/etc collect from public records, credit card companies, etc.

Or Equifax, unless you want to live like Ted kazinksi there is no opt out there

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