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Life as a service or freedom as a service?

It would likely be called a "new technological freedom" from hackers and scams etc. Like how the marxists like to call marxist monetary policy a "new economic freedom".

"Freedom from choice" as opposed to "freedom of choice." Words are so important.

A monopoly on liberty. Hayek RPMs increasing...

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The only people who are being miserable are the ones complaining about this shit. Rest of the world is happily leading their lives or have other real world problems that they have to deal with and not worry about some elite, upper-class problems

I can care about politicians trying to legislate me out of existence and about the privacy and integrity of my data at the same time. In fact, the two concerns are tightly interwoven.