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> an economy where no tracking is possible might not perform as well as an economy that tracks everything

Oh well. Just let the economy perform slightly worse then.

> for knowledge means better resource allocation

Who cares about some corporation's resource allocation? That's their problem to solve. We should be caring about all the people whose privacy they are violating instead.

If they want to allocate resources efficiently, they should be required to do it in a way that doesn't invade anyone's privacy. If that means they'll make less money so be it.




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