Sad. I suggest you read up on the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes where there is no privacy. Maybe read "1984". Wonder why right to privacy was written into the constitution? Along with a lot of other things that are being ignored.
Maybe you don't care now, but what if you did? What if your society was taken over by really fucked up dudes who started doing things that any decent person would take issue with... and
you were powerless to even protest because they know everything thing you do? Spying on all electronic communications, spying with drones. The ability to easily track anyone. Stalin would have been in constant orgasmic ecstasy if this had been possible in his day.
And I'll let you know why I think things are going to happen fairly soon that most people will have an issue with. Computers are getting more sophisticated all the time. Before long they will be "smart" enough to make some human workers obsolete... meaning that the person has *no* viable task that they can perform better or at a lower cost than a machine. These
people will be unemployable, and as the machines continue to become more sophisticated, the number of persons in this category will grow.
Most likely welfare will be expanded, and propaganda will continue to pit the middle class (who experience higher taxes and declining living standards) against the lower class (who don't work and receive the dole). Divide and conquer. But the population will be mollified and distracted one way or another while the number of unemployable persons grows.
Every developed country in the world runs on a consumer capitalist economic model. That's because it has been shown to work better than any other. The consumer/worker is vital part of this system, because the prosperity of the capitalist depends on the prosperity of the consumer. The capitalist makes profit from making and selling stuff to consumers. If consumer income and wealth doesn't increases, then the capitalist's wealth can't either for long. It's symbiotic. It also favors a democratic government, human rights, and freedom. Why? The general population will work harder and be more efficient and more willing to fight wars if they are free, which ultimately increases the power and wealth of the capitalists.
This will soon be obsolete. As the economically useless humans become a greater % of the population, consumer capitalism will no longer be viable. From the capitalist standpoint the consumer is no longer a vital part of the system, but rather something that merely consumes resources while providing no value to them.
Vermin. Instead they can use those resources for themselves, and use robotic serfs and slaves to build whatever they want directly and much more efficiently than ever before. Robots will also fight the wars.
What do you suppose will happen to our human rights and living standards then? The rich will have every reason to reduce the amount of resources "wasted" on keeping useless humans alive, meaning that our living standard will gradually deteriorate, along with any thoughts of of rights or freedom. Don't take freedom for granted folks... it became fashionable at the same time as consumer capitalism, and is in fact dependent on it. It will probably happen gradually enough to keep the population from complaining too much until it's too late to do anything about it. It might already be too late. I imagine in a short few decades
we will be "happily" spending nearly all our time in VR pods hooked up to feeding and evacuation tubes... until we die. That is the only option we will have. And that is an optimistic scenario. Useless humans might be eliminated much more swiftly.
The alternative? That democracy and freedom are actually strong enough for the interests and wishes of the majority to win out over the desires of the powerful few. And so we share the bounty and all live better and more interesting lives without needing to work. Trends over the last few decades are not heading in this direction though... at all.
Good luck.
I'll leave this here...
I prefer to think of the future with positivity and watch things that help with that. fear is a easy way to control people and take away the power of the majority. if you believe what spiritual teachers tell us then you know thoughts affect the collective consciousness and affect actions on a world wide scale. even if your not spiritual then you can talk about it in a individual since.. I dislike a lot of tv shows and movies because they just are not good for your mind with bloody grim outlooks that can get into your head if you watch to much plus don't even get me started on commercials.
