I know it doesn't. It doesn't bother most millennials either. However, I think about things in a really long term manner. It's my own particular curse. It allowed me to retire early, but at the same time I think about things that make for free societies. Privacy, property rights, democracy, capitalism, and being successful at integrating immigrants are some of those things. Privacy is getting destroyed in the US by the social media giants. Property rights are fraying. Democracy is under attack. Capitalism is under attack by corrupt individuals and by socialists. And immigrants in this country are being vilified on the one hand and given a free ride on the other. In short, we're doing pretty much nothing right at this moment in US history.
BTW, I think of freedom as a Hierarchy, similar to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Foundational to all freedoms are things like privacy, property rights, speech, security, choice of wether to work and what work you engage in. Without those, many other derivative freedoms are impossible to secure. This generation vastly underestimate the value of privacy. Think of privacy as a safe space, where you can think and be innovative in your thoughts without fear of consequences. Without that, we are subject to totalitarianism and the unchanging status quo.
I could go on, but this is an esoteric subject and is hard to explain. Suffice it to say, that data privacy is hugely valuable and people are just giving it away for free to the social media companies, without knowing how valuable it is. Then they all complain that they aren't getting their fair share of the economic pie. Then stop giving away your privacy. |
