For Context: I live in the United States of America.
Thankfully I don’t live in the US, as it was shown again and again that your government is doing whatever it wants to its population, including chemical tests and total surveillance. I just hope they don’t get bored of you guys anytime soon and start bullying innocent European.
- The overly cynical details in my comment are partly on purpose.
Except the government isn’t doing any of that. It’s Facebook and Google and Palantir that are trying to total surveillance.
It’s train companies slacking on safety that puts dangerous chemicals in our water.
It’s the infiltration of business thinking for private good into the government, which manages public goods, that leads to reduced services whose be declining quality.
I believe fear of the government is caused by business interests having influenced the public imagination to redirect justifiable grievances away from where it belongs.
Both can be true. A lot of the bad is business getting what it wants in pursuit of getting All of the money. A lot of the bad is incompetent government officials legislating things they don’t understand, often after “seminars” by lobbyists to “teach” them. And a lot of the bad is government officials with bad ideas doing bad things maliciously.
For example, even businesses don’t want to kill off encryption but every once in a while here comes some Representative to try and do it anyway.
