{"id":13734,"date":"2015-03-10T15:13:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T15:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/it-feudalism-the-surveillance-state-and-wealth\/"},"modified":"2015-03-10T15:13:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T15:13:48","slug":"it-feudalism-the-surveillance-state-and-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/it-feudalism-the-surveillance-state-and-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"IT feudalism: the surveillance state and wealth gaps [please share!]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/113247791805\/it-feudalism-the-surveillance-state-and-wealth\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/2fd4b1801e5651abacdc948b34e6b1e1\/tumblr_inline_nkzuv930O91rkw4x1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/mar\/10\/nsa-gchq-technology-create-social-mobility-spy-on-citizens\">latest Guardian column<\/a><br \/>\n examines the relationship between technology, surveillance and wealth<br \/>\ndisparity \u2014 specifically the way that cheap mass surveillance makes it<br \/>\npossible to sustain more unequal societies because it makes it cheaper<br \/>\nto find and catch the dissidents who foment rebellion over the creation<br \/>\nof hereditary elites.<\/p>\n<p>\nSocial stability comes at the intersection of \u201cguard labor\u201d \u2014 coercive<br \/>\ncontrol efforts \u2014 and beneficial social programs. The more a state<br \/>\nspends on social programs, the more of its citizens will buy into the<br \/>\nlegitimacy of the social order, and the less it has to spend policing<br \/>\nthose citizens. By making policing vastly cheaper, the IT revolution has<br \/>\n created a new wealth-disparity reality, in which it is more \u201ccost<br \/>\neffective\u201d for elites to buy surveillance than it is for them to pay<br \/>\ntheir share for the common good.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/03\/10\/it-feudalism-the-surveillance.html\"><b>Read the rest\u2026<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: My latest Guardian column examines the relationship between technology, surveillance and wealth disparity \u2014 specifically the way that cheap mass surveillance makes it possible to sustain more unequal societies because it makes it cheaper to find and catch the dissidents who foment rebellion over the creation of hereditary elites. Social stability comes at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3zw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}