Full blown essay like answers are more than welcomed. What does the ‘ruling class’ gains from surveiling it’s own population. What do they fear the most? What there is to lose, what there is to gain?
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Look up “surveillance capitalism”… It’s for directed marketing and algorithmic attention manipulation. It Chomsky’s idea of the “very lively debate within a narrow range of ideas” combined with Fouccalt’s idea of the Panopticon.
As Adorno said of the consumer culture industry: “Something is provided for all, so that none may escape”.
Money and power, commodities… that’s basically why they do it, at this point maybe also the ability to control who will survive a big humankind debacle.