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The Productive Dystopia: Surveillance for Development vs. Surveillance for Control

The parallel between BRICS+ surveillance and Western surveillance is misleading. The former is a tool for systemic optimization in a phase of accelerated accumulation, aimed at eliminating inefficiencies, corruption, and social risks that hinder industrial and infrastructural development. It is a vertical authority that promises and delivers upward social mobility. Western surveillance, born after 9/11 and perfected with platform capitalism, is horizontal and defensive: it serves to monitor, pacify, and prey upon an impoverishing population, protecting an unproductive establishment. It builds nothing, it only manages decline. One surveils to build, the other to preserve rents. It is the opposite goals that define the nature of control.

#SystemicSurveillance #BRICSAccumulation #PlatformCapitalism #WesternDecline #DevelopmentVsRent #SocialControl #Optimization #NOSTR

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The Productive Dystopia: Surveillance for Development vs. Surveillance for Control

The parallel between BRICS+ surveillance and Western surveillance is misleading. The former is a tool for systemic optimization in a phase of accelerated accumulation, aimed at eliminating inefficiencies, corruption, and social risks that hinder industrial and infrastructural development. It is a vertical authority that promises and delivers upward social mobility. Western surveillance, born after 9/11 and perfected with platform capitalism, is horizontal and defensive: it serves to monitor, pacify, and prey upon an impoverishing population, protecting an unproductive establishment. It builds nothing, it only manages decline. One surveils to build, the other to preserve rents. It is the opposite goals that define the nature of control.

#SystemicSurveillance #BRICSAccumulation #PlatformCapitalism #WesternDecline #DevelopmentVsRent #SocialControl #Optimization #NOSTR