Multiple things can be true at the same time... do you think the seller doesn't want a closely surveilled world with no exits?

Besides, money keeps businesses in the economy afloat, it's an artificial good with (more or less) constant value. Money's a systematic means to an end and rarely an end goal, its purpose is the transportation of value, and not the communication of value.

This is the drug-dealer justification -- "if I don't [sell drugs|provide mass surveillance at an unprecedented scale|crush these kittens] someone else will"

There are buyers who want drugs for recreational reasons, murders for emotional reasons, or spy cams on hotel rooms for business reasons. But those are simply 3 instances where existent demand doesn't mean we should be allowing any offer to exist.

I'd personally agree to put Flock-levels of civil vigilance in the same bag.

HN and YC are complicit by painting it as “the government” who literally bans the cameras when it’s only the investors who want them for ads.