Privacy, confidentiality, anonymity, discretion, deceit, paranoia. Part 4
January 8, 2019
By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc / LMMiami.com
- Imagine if you knew exactly how much your boss makes.
- Imagine if you knew exactly how much the dealer and the manufacturer are profiting on that new car you want to buy.
- Apply this to every transaction: from groceries to taxes, from healthcare to education.
- We’d do away with most of the drama of everyday life.
- Negotiations would be way more efficient, smooth, fast and aseptic.
- A fair shake.
- The antidote to buyer’s remorse.
- If your business model depends on opacity, find a new one: a stratagem is not a strategy.
- The privacy mantra is used A LOT to cover up deceit and manipulation.
- “Privacy” has a way of turning everything into an exhausting game of liars’ poker.
- A lose-lose situation.
- You can fool me once but I’ll retaliate eventually either against you or against someone else.
- A domino effect of bitter individuals trying to exact revenge from a deceptive environment.
- When you feel you’ve been wronged once and again it kinda gives you a moral pass to screw someone else.
- The cosmos is against me, f*ck the cosmos.
- Carte blanche to break the rules.
- “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi
- Some people believe we need privacy to protect ourselves from tyrannical governments.
- Methinks it is quite the opposite.
- Secrecy, opacity and manipulation are a tyrant’s best friends.
- In a world without privacy, crime would be way lower.
- Terrorists, drug dealers, corrupt politicians and pedophiles would have nowhere to hide.
- The government would spend way less in law enforcement to play cat & mouse with criminals and tax evaders.
- The IRS would be a much smaller entity.
- Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would suffer way less fraud.
- Transparency allows for a far better flow of the checks & balances essential to democracy.
- Transparency allows the judiciary to breathe down the neck of the other two branches of government to expediently control, when & if necessary, the temptation to abuse power.
- An vice versa.
- Problem is, transparency requires a vigilant citizenry who’s willing to stick it out.
- Privacy is, of course, way more comfortable for a lethargic populace too lazy or cowardly to step up to the plate.
- To be continued next week.
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