Surveillance just became a factory-fitted option you can't decline.
  • Boingboing_r@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    6 days ago

    I read the other day that laws are being passed by people with chauffeurs for people who drive cars and I cant get that out of my mind.

    • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      20·
      6 days ago

      That exactly is the problem with most laws passed these days. The political caste is so disconnected from normal everyday life of normal people that they aren’t even impacted directly by them anymore, so even if they wanted to, they can’t make normal laws for normal people.

        • General_Effort@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          5 days ago

          Probably, but it’s certainly more complicated. Fiat complained about the added cost of such systems. On the low budget end, this adds a noticeable chunk to the price. Bad for sales in the EU, added complications for export. I could imagine the “premium brands” like such regulations that remove some competition.

          The yahoo post in OP is a press release by a Swedish tech company that makes such systems. They’re not exactly part of the car industry, but they claim to have lobbied for this.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      Notice how these “Liberals”, even after watching America fall to fascism and their own domestic resurgence, are continuing to implement all the tools necessary for big brother style totalitarianism? How they’re continuing to implement big brother FOR fascism?

      It’s almost like they work for the same interests…

        • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          In the “illusion of democracy, while a capitalist plutocracy owns our political class” sense, which is the only correct one.

            • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              This is true across the developed world. Liberalism is fervently pro-capital, and results in a political class who are captured by the wealthiest; who operate on behalf of capital instead of the people, and run the country for-profit, like a business.

              All developed economies have been backsliding in quality of life and standard of living for the last 30-60 years in a race to the bottom. The rich have gotten richer while the poor have gotten poorer. The US is just the furthest along the downward spiral, and an example of what will happen everywhere without significant change and resistance.