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Also you could wander much more easily in the past. These days digital surveillance has creeped in everywhere. Stay in one place over a day and you'll get a tic
by pixl97 1y ago
Also you could wander much more easily in the past. These days digital surveillance has creeped in everywhere. Stay in one place over a day and you'll get a ticket. Pay is better monitored so you cant easily do under the table work. Your customers probably use cards so your transactions are monitored and will be taxed. It's a different world from what us older people grew up in.
- keiferski 1y agoYeah; I was reading Kerouac recently and just thought to myself, this kind of wandering free existence just isn’t even possible anymore. Everything is mapped and reviewed, so you’d need to deliberately be counter-cultural and turn off your phone.
- lrvick 1y agoNot had a smartphone in 5 years, and would never go back. I get lost sometimes and explore new areas, I enjoy concerts with my own eyes, I can wait to deal with work when I am back home and enjoy dinner with my family, and I am always present in whatever I am doing not allowing the internet to ever tear me away. It has changed a lot about my life, and I am so much happier. And have so much more privacy, given I also only use cash in public. I am mostly invisible when away from home, digitally.
- hypokite 1y ago> .. I am always present in whatever I am doing not allowing the internet to ever tear me away. Yet here you are. Oops.
- rich66man 1y agoSo many people are like "I have quit all social media! I'm free from DA INTERNET!" while posting this on Hacker News or Reddit
- lrvick 1y agoYes, I make a decision when to be at my desk, and when I walk away I live in the real world. Turns out you do not need to be reachable or stay connected with the lives of far away people every second of every day.
- pixl97 1y agoTurning off your phone just the easiest way to track you. With more AI based facial recognition cameras and data sharing between corporations you're still being tracked in public. The digital world has shrunk the analog world to a very small place.
- hattmall 1y agoNot that I'm pro being tracked or anything, but what difference does that make to your general existence and daily adventure if there is some sort of behind the scenes tracking going on. Why would that prevent you from wandering?
- ethbr1 1y agoTracking is a necessary precursor to being able to hassle wanderers. Absent mass automated surveillance, the state's ability to do so at scale was limited. Once implemented (and processed and stored), norms on use erode over time... and then anyone anomalous is being auto background-checked when showing up in a new area. Or do we think someone won't find a use for all the dark datacenter GPU power after AI pops?
- thaumasiotes 1y ago> and then anyone anomalous is being auto background-checked when showing up in a new area. That is the historical norm. Is it supposed to be a new concept?
- pixl97 1y agoI mean, slavery is a historical norm. I'd rather not have it back.
- ethbr1 1y agoWhen has that ever been the historical norm? Even the most closed societies (say, East Germany, the USSR, and the DPRK) only accomplished a fraction of what's now technically possible, and that historical analogue through a massive human labor force.