You can choose to care about privacy, but then you have to accept that there will be cost associated with it, you have to worry all the time about every single thing to do. It mentally taxing and the cost is just going to be higher and higher.

>These things are generational and accumulated wisdom about privacy, surveillance and their cascading consequences into other aspects of society including sleepwalking into a police state are well known.

Human and its society always evolving and changing, you can't expect everything stay static, we human always have to adapt to changing society and environment.

>For those on the other side of the police state or who gain from these shifts

Then instead we should demand equal transparency for everyone, including those in the government.