The Harms of Surveillance Capitalism

Do we really want a dominant form of capitalism that trades in human futures? As soon as you reverse engineer the competitive dynamics of that kind of marketplace, you get to all of the harms of surveillance capitalism. You need different kinds of data, not only what we do online, but what we do walking and talking and living our lives in the real world every single day. So you can't have futures markets without these harms, which are an affront to democracy from above,. And they erode the entire idea of individual sovereignty and autonomy - building blocks for any kind of democratic society.