Many people say things like: "I'm just an average guy. I have nothing to hide. My life is boring. I never do anything unusual." Ironically, it is perhaps these

Many people say things like: "I'm just an average guy. I have nothing to hide. My life is boring. I never do anything unusual." Ironically, it is perhaps these people who have the most to lose from surveillance? As most of you already know, the difference between rich and poor has been increasing since the 70s/80s. Most of the nothing-to-hiders are probably ordinary middle class folks. What if the difference between rich and poor continue to increase? Normally, people could protest against this sort of thing, and get taxes on the rich raised to even things out a bit. The surveillance-police-state that has been created in the name of fighting terrorism and drugs, could be used for other things, too, no? Like against protesters in favor of some income re-distribution. I wouldn't be surprised if the nothing-to-hiders will wake up one day, realizing that they are living in a very unpleasant society: A society where the elite is living in luxury and the rest in squalor. A society where "those with connections" don't get punished for crimes, but where the rest are punished harshly. A society where those who win the lottery of birth will do well, but where the average guy has no opportunities. And because of the surveillance-police-state, they will not be able to change it.