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People go to work in what are essentially private authoritarian governments, now they want to fully live under one too? This reads like an Orwell book. The fact that such a major privacy issue is arising so soon should doom the project for good.

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Also, the fact that people blindly accept that companies somehow still have to work like authotarian goverments from old ages is mind boggling.

Especially in the US, there is a massive lack of employee discourse inside the company.

When you have almost 80% of the population living paycheck to paycheck [1] with practically nobody in that percentage with a significant savings [2], and workplace laws where you can be fired for literally anything, you can easily stifle workplace unionization efforts and discourse. People literally cannot afford to do anything that would benefit them.

This article is about Canada, but it's really becoming a worldwide issue.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/few-americans-have-enough-sa...

It also seems like a cultural issue to me. Americans seem so opposed to the idea of labour unions and workplace councils, because it somehow "hurts companies"?

it is probably for historical reasons of the cold war, but fascinating nonetheless.

It's definitely somewhat anti-left sentiments built into our culture/society through means such as mccarthyism and anti-communism, as well as purposeful lack of education. It's also our media and entertainment. These tactics can be further learned about in Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent'.

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