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The governments of North Korea, China, the EU and Australia are all trying to get as much surveillance as they can get away with, despite having radically diffe
by spacebanana7 1y ago
The governments of North Korea, China, the EU and Australia are all trying to get as much surveillance as they can get away with, despite having radically different economic systems.
I suspect there’s a universal desire for governments to want to spy on the people they govern.
- Etheryte 1y agoAll listed parties have very strong capital concentration in the top small percentile, despite different economic systems and political backgrounds.
- Jensson 1y agoYou mean power concentration? These things aren't pushed by rich people, it is pushed by powerful people. It often overlaps but not necessarily, a lot of powerful people are not that rich, for example politicians in Europe often aren't wealthy but they have a lot of power still.
- 1oooqooq 1y agothey are all catching up with the US, where capital accumulation was faster. government is just a higher level cop, protecting property.
- account42 1y agoThe only one of these that has a radically different economic system is NK.