Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will never be definitively established in this world. Anyone who promises the better world that is guaranteed to last forever is making a false promise; he is overlooking human freedom. Freedom must be constantly won over for the cause of good. Free assent to the good never exists simply by itself. If there were structures which could irrevocably guarantee a determined and good state of the world, man's freedom would be denied, and hence they would not be good structures at all.
In my city we spent $1.6 billion on a new ticketing system for the trains. We replaced paper tickets with smartcards and now they can tell where people get on and off. So, question: how is that worth $1.6 billion?People say it__ the government being incompetent, and ok. But this is happening all over. All the transit networks are getting smartcards, the grocery stores are taking your name, the airports are getting face recognition cameras. Those cameras, they don__ work when people try to avoid them. Like, they can be fooled by glasses. We KNOW they__e ineffective as anti-terrorism devices, but we still keep installing them.All of this stuff__he smartcards, the ID systems, the __nti-congestion_ car-tracking tech__ll of it is terrible at what it__ officially supposed to do. It__ only good for tracking the rest of us, the 99.9% who just use the smartcard or whatever and let ourselves be tracked because it__ easier.I__ not a privacy nut, and I don__ care that much if these organizations want to know where I go and what I buy. But what bothers me is how HARD they__e all working for that data, how much money they__e spending, and how they never admit that__ what they want. It means that information must be really valuable for some reason, and I just wonder to who and why.
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In my city we spent $1.6 billion on a new ticketing system for the trains. We replaced paper tickets with smartcards and now they can tell where people get on and off. So, question: how is that worth $1.6 billion?People say it__ the government being incompetent, and ok. But this is happening all over. All the transit networks are getting smartcards, the grocery stores are taking your name, the airports are getting face recognition cameras. Those cameras, they don__ work when people try to avoid them. Like, they can be fooled by glasses. We KNOW they__e ineffective as anti-terrorism devices, but we still keep installing them.All of this stuff__he smartcards, the ID systems, the __nti-congestion_ car-tracking tech__ll of it is terrible at what it__ officially supposed to do. It__ only good for tracking the rest of us, the 99.9% who just use the smartcard or whatever and let ourselves be tracked because it__ easier.I__ not a privacy nut, and I don__ care that much if these organizations want to know where I go and what I buy. But what bothers me is how HARD they__e all working for that data, how much money they__e spending, and how they never admit that__ what they want. It means that information must be really valuable for some reason, and I just wonder to who and why.
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