At first I wasn't going to reply because you are clearly not discussing in good faith (you neglected to address my evidence to the contrary or the flaw in your

At first I wasn't going to reply because you are clearly not discussing in good faith (you neglected to address my evidence to the contrary or the flaw in your reasoning but instead focused on my random afterthought.) But others might read this so I decided to elaborate a bit. I was once misinformed with the belief that business' primary goal is to make money. But when you have the experience of explaining data to a CEO that clearly shows that their customer surveillance has a negative ROI and that the conclusions they are drawing from the data are not warranted. (For example, if you want to claim that your initiative increased sales, you need to compare an equivalent data point before and after the initiative, not just afterward.) If you say this and then look into the cold, dead eyes of a sociopath you'll know how foolish you were to ever assume the point of tracking customer data is to make money. I felt dumb ever believing that business leaders care directly about money. I knew that to be false in high school when they made me read 1984. The lesson that O'Brien teaches Winston is one that we clearly have not learned. > The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. We can add to that list "The object of unrelenting invasive surveillance is unrelenting invasive surveillance."