> All the world's a stage, > And all the men and women merely players. I think one benefit of privacy is the ability to maintain multiple identities. Not just

> All the world's a stage, > And all the men and women merely players. I think one benefit of privacy is the ability to maintain multiple identities. Not just "secret" identities, but also the ability to play different roles depending on the context. I'm not sure how to explain it exactly, but I feel like a loss of privacy would bestow upon me a pretty heavy cognitive burden. Even if my behavior isn't embarrassing or self-sabotaging, I have better things to do than justify my every waking moment and tailor a consistent & comprehensive identity. It would be the equivalent of spaghetti code. And in keeping with the information asymmetry theme, I can't see how this could be feasibly implemented. If everyone agreed to an entirely transparent society, it only takes a single agent to exploit the system by keeping secrets anyway. There would have to be absurdly harsh disincentives for defecting in order to keep the system pareto optimal.