— Cory DoctorowMass surveillance shifts the guillotine equilibrium in favor of being greedier, by making it cheaper to identify and neutralize incipient guillotine-builders, which means that you can raise the greediness floor without seeing a concomitant rise in your guard labor bill
Replicated under Fair Use from Pluralistic: Become unoptimizable (20 Aug 2025) by Cory Doctorow.