Its a perfect, self serving loop, if you think about it from a governance perspective. Government takes taxes. It uses those taxes to spy on its citizens. Th

Its a perfect, self serving loop, if you think about it from a governance perspective. Government takes taxes. It uses those taxes to spy on its citizens. This makes the citizens more compliant. Compliant citizens acquiesce more easily. Government therefore increases its power and does more of the same. Greater invasive control results in more extraction from the citizens and more power to government. From a governance perspective, this is a positive feedback loop. From a citizens perspective, it is a negative feedback loop.