The kids love big brother!
Today's signal looks at a Cato study that shows a third of under 30's would be comfortable with *government* surveillance within their *own homes* to monitor any potential "wrong doing".
This implies that they trust the government more than the people they live with - their partners, roommates and families. Scary!
This very literal turn towards Orwell's 1984 reminded me of Margaret Atwood's beautiful essay on freedom vs (perceived) security in a gilded cage...
What does this generational shift towards surveillance and away from privacy suggest towards your own business affairs? (and what you can get away with from a "corporate surveillance" perspective now that you couldn't in the past?)
Does this mean future workers will be more amenable to company monitoring of their person and their word? Or does the bent towards surveillance only extend to the government and not to bosses?
Or do you want big brother (very literally) in your bedroom?
What other trade-offs are you prepared to make for the illusion of security?
(Or is it not about safety at all, but rather about FOMO and “fairness” and not wanting others to “get away” with things we cannot? Hmmm)
Read more:
Nearly 1 in 3 GenZ love big brother : https://www.cato.org/blog/nearly-third-gen-z-favors-home-government-surveillance-cameras-1
We are double plus unfree (by Margret Atwood) : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/18/margaret-atwood-we-are-double-plus-unfree
The false trade off :
And the kids loved big brother