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It's most efficient under the constraint that we probably don't want to force citizens to submit to advertising-style pervasive monitoring by the government wel
by oldmanjay 11y ago
It's most efficient under the constraint that we probably don't want to force citizens to submit to advertising-style pervasive monitoring by the government welfare authorities just to eat.
- notahacker 11y agoSurely there's a happy medium between assuming that every minute difference in an individual's clickstream is valuable data to which can be mined for insights to optimise for certain behavioural responses on the one hand, and assuming that any effort spent setting parameters for giving people free money is bound to be a futile and wasteful endeavour on the other? Though frankly, $xxxxx from the government for signing up to pervasive monitoring would still be a better deal than anything I've ever been offered as a result of interacting with an ad tracker or promised by the brave new world of the IoT.
- oldmanjay 11y agoYou're the one who started with the advertising analogy. I just combined that kickoff with the tendency of government to ratchet power and control once granted. You may think it's a slippery slope, I just see a logical basis for assumption.