I suspect the Chinese surveillance state will accidentally begin punishing things that are vital to the accumulation of social capital and emotional well-being. It will be hard to pinpoint source but human capital will start failing.
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As long as some societies do not adopt such crude control measures, I expect them to outperform surveillance & control culture.
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There is of course the fact that all societies with phones and computers right now are surveillance cultures. But this has not been applied to petty crimes in many of them.
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Actually all societies have been surveillance cultures ever since gossip was invented
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Centralized vs. decentralized surveillance. Decentralized surveillance looks the other way sometimes...
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In practice so does 'centralized' Also as long as it's monitored by human agents even if it's officially centralized it's de facto de centralized.
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In theory cops are centralized enforcement and surveillance but they look the other way a LOT
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