The Dangerous Lie Every Tech Founder Believes (And Why It’s Helping Build a Police State)
Your app’s most valuable features—ubiquity, efficiency, enforcement—are exactly what make it perfect for a police state. Civic hygiene means designing for the worst-case scenario: assume the government will one day be hostile. Don’t collect data you don’t need. Make systems that can be turned off. The lie is that you’re just building tools. The truth is you’re building infrastructure for control.