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> As for the "kids" who "don't care" about privacy? Ask them that question after their first unnecessary 2 week quarantine-in-isolation-hotel due to glitchy blu

> As for the "kids" who "don't care" about privacy? Ask them that question after their first unnecessary 2 week quarantine-in-isolation-hotel due to glitchy bluetooth. People don’t revolt against the tyranny of the state just because it starts affecting their peers. Western democracies all over the world lock up thousands of innocent people every year. It happens all the time, it could happen to you, me, or anybody reading this comment. Very few people care. If it did happen to you, and you wanted to complain about it, you’re unlikely to convince many additional people to care.

walterbell 7y ago
No revolt needed. Economic natural selection will run its course. States can make their own choices. Talent can do the same. This does assume that states will compete to attract the top tier of creative professionals who can work from home, create high-value digital businesses with remote workers and an industrial tax base. Unless there are walls between states, top talent can and will move.
- AmericanChopper 7y ago
  This assumes that people will proactively leave, instead of just not caring, until such a point in time when it may be too late for them personally. It also kinda assumes that even if people were to leave, that the state would realize the error of its ways. Which is quite optimistic, because there’s many cases where it’s rather easy to measure the negative impact of a policy, and then watch the policy makers use those negative impacts as a basis for further negative-impacting policy. It also seems this advice would really only help people who had the economic freedom to arbitrarily choose where they live and work.
  - walterbell 7y ago
    The virus has shown that a relatively small number of humans wielding incorrect models (disproven in mere weeks!) were able to influence the leaders of hundreds of millions of people. After the first human ran a four-minute mile, that feat was repeated by other humans. Don't underestimate the lessons learned by the non-winners of the last two months. More than a few HN readers could work from home and people in some states are about to make very different choices from their neighbors in other states. Time will tell who wins. If you listen to the rhetoric, it is claimed that some will literally die because of the policy choices of their governor. It is true that past behavior does not support the migration theory, but the near future does not (sadly) look much like the past.

walterbell 7y ago

No revolt needed. Economic natural selection will run its course. States can make their own choices. Talent can do the same. This does assume that states will compete to attract the top tier of creative professionals who can work from home, create high-value digital businesses with remote workers and an industrial tax base. Unless there are walls between states, top talent can and will move.

AmericanChopper 7y ago
This assumes that people will proactively leave, instead of just not caring, until such a point in time when it may be too late for them personally. It also kinda assumes that even if people were to leave, that the state would realize the error of its ways. Which is quite optimistic, because there’s many cases where it’s rather easy to measure the negative impact of a policy, and then watch the policy makers use those negative impacts as a basis for further negative-impacting policy. It also seems this advice would really only help people who had the economic freedom to arbitrarily choose where they live and work.
- walterbell 7y ago
  The virus has shown that a relatively small number of humans wielding incorrect models (disproven in mere weeks!) were able to influence the leaders of hundreds of millions of people. After the first human ran a four-minute mile, that feat was repeated by other humans. Don't underestimate the lessons learned by the non-winners of the last two months. More than a few HN readers could work from home and people in some states are about to make very different choices from their neighbors in other states. Time will tell who wins. If you listen to the rhetoric, it is claimed that some will literally die because of the policy choices of their governor. It is true that past behavior does not support the migration theory, but the near future does not (sadly) look much like the past.