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Horses don't revolt

• cutemonster 2y ago
  Humans also won't, in tomorrow's surveillance society (or today's, in some places)
  • Xen9 2y ago
    Soviet revolution comes to mind.
    • cutemonster 2y ago
      That's not comparable to Russia today. Now there are surveillance cameras, internet surveillance and machine learning, but not back then. Also it wouldn't have happened hadn't it been for Gorbatjov who introduced the glasnost (transparency) policy reform. Another Stalin, and history would have looked different.
      • Xen9 2y ago
        I did not intend it as a serious point. However, the Zuboffian trade that you mention will end in most of the species having no autonomy left to trade for comfort, completing a historical trend: land ownership for service access, self-sufficiency for product quality et cetera