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You've got an idealized version of humanity in your head. Don't get me wrong, there are many real things to be deeply worried about (e.g. overshoot, nuclear proliferation and the relegitimisation of eugenics) but the monetization and commodification of 'private spaces' are not historically unusual, not worsening and not inherently wrong.

Some suggested reading - Bataille, Foucault, Negri and any social histories of the 1800s.

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It might not be unusual, but it does feel wrong and worsening. Wrong because it feels like we should have security in what we consume/how we spend our attention. Worsening because more and more places commodify their private spaces, both critical to most western human life (the gas station, by law you are supposed to monitor the gas pump) and noncritical (the pause menu of a video player)

> not worsening and not inherently wrong.

People saying, and believing, this, is exactly why it's depressing. At the least. Infuriating and disgusting really.

Imagine your ex or some other person you don't like, you don't consent to, peering in on you right now, watching everything you do, selling information about you to other people.

It's disgusting to think about when it's an individual who does it, right? Why do you put up with the exact same shit if a corporation or government does it? Often with the threat of violence and seizure.

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>not worsening

If you haven't got anything to say about it? Anyway, to reply to the rest of your critique, the scenario you describe (that happens often) only feels wrong because it implies that one party has an inability to retaliate (which isn't true).

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