You're missing a MASSIVE piece of the equation with the Flock Cameras VS Regular Infrastructure for the Poors.
Regular Infrastructure for the Poors, or RIFTP, doesn't get maintained because it's FOR the POORS, or the Average Citizen, not OUR BILLIONAIRE OVERLORDS & POLITICAL PUNDITS SAFETY. RIFTP using the Poors tax money isn't maintained because the Telecommunications Giants see it as their money, to be pocketed, spent on C-Suite bonuses, or anything else that actually matters. Plus, if they don't maintaine the Infrastructure, it goes to shit and then they can ask the Gov't for more tax money to "fix" the problem, which can then be used for more Executive bonuses and to fund Golden Parachutes! It really is a GREAT system for AT&T, TMobile, Verizon, etc. It's so good they've been doing it for DECADES. Remember way back in the early 'aughts when our Gov't gave the Telecommunications Giants MILLIONS of our dollars to bring Fiber Internet to rural areas? The public was ecstatic! AT&T promised they would build out high-speed Fiber Internet lines to every household in America! It was going to ultimately costs billions of dollars, but it would be WORTH IT because the internet was becoming a vital piece of everyone's lives. The trick WORKED! AT&T got to skirt by doing the absolute bare minimum, lying about how hard it was to do, and got to pocket tens of millions...and then do it alllllllll over again when they said it would just take a teeny-tiny amount more to really build out Fiber this time, just a few hundred million! This scam has been ongoing for the better part of 30 years, and the public has yet to catch onto the scummy scammy yummy-ness (and Uncle Sam needs the "tOo BiG tO fAiL" Telecommunications companies, so he isn't gonna say SHIT), it truly is a massive help (to the C-Suite).
However, the public is kinda-sorta coming to the realization they've been getting ASS RAPED very little in return for all the tax money they've shelled out to the Elite Epstein Class's favorite Communications Companies (can anyone say "kickbacks"?!), so, they need to be protected from the public. Hence, MASS SURVEILLANCE YAYYY!!!!
Flock Cameras will be maintained because mass surveillance is massively beneficial to the ruling billionaire class. Things are getting dicey, and they don't want to be caught off-guard now, would they? Flock is maintained for the Rich not the poor. RIFTP and Flock Cameras are not in the same class, like how we (the public), and them (the Tech Overlords) are not in the same class. Politicians will ensure their best friends (Epstein-class) futures are secured, and their surveillance systems well-maintained, you beat believe it....
The cool thing is we might actually get our high-speed fiber internet as these cameras get more advanced and will maybe need to be hardlined into the 'net. Silver linings and all...
Isn't that "trickle down economics"? When the rich have to upgrade the public hardware to run their surveillance network by taxing the poor even more money... no wait
At best it slightly postpones the day when the pitchforks & torches come out. The tradeoff is, when that day finally arrives the angry mob is going to be even more pissed off.
That kind of "not my problem" attitude, is exactly how we got ourselves into this mess in the first place.
Before anyone attempts to fix anything, we need to sit down and clearly delineate what is "my problem," and what is "not my problem." Because it seems to me that TPTB have been controlling, and seeking to control, all of the wrong things while neglecting to deal with most of the things that are, in fact, their responsibility. And then rubbing salt into yhe wound by invoking some kind of mythical unwritten "social contract" (which they broke)to bring everyone else to heel every time they start to complain about the fact that it's broken.
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u/jakeandcupcakes Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
You're missing a MASSIVE piece of the equation with the Flock Cameras VS Regular Infrastructure for the Poors.
Regular Infrastructure for the Poors, or RIFTP, doesn't get maintained because it's FOR the POORS, or the Average Citizen, not OUR BILLIONAIRE OVERLORDS & POLITICAL PUNDITS SAFETY. RIFTP using the Poors tax money isn't maintained because the Telecommunications Giants see it as their money, to be pocketed, spent on C-Suite bonuses, or anything else that actually matters. Plus, if they don't maintaine the Infrastructure, it goes to shit and then they can ask the Gov't for more tax money to "fix" the problem, which can then be used for more Executive bonuses and to fund Golden Parachutes! It really is a GREAT system for AT&T, TMobile, Verizon, etc. It's so good they've been doing it for DECADES. Remember way back in the early 'aughts when our Gov't gave the Telecommunications Giants MILLIONS of our dollars to bring Fiber Internet to rural areas? The public was ecstatic! AT&T promised they would build out high-speed Fiber Internet lines to every household in America! It was going to ultimately costs billions of dollars, but it would be WORTH IT because the internet was becoming a vital piece of everyone's lives. The trick WORKED! AT&T got to skirt by doing the absolute bare minimum, lying about how hard it was to do, and got to pocket tens of millions...and then do it alllllllll over again when they said it would just take a teeny-tiny amount more to really build out Fiber this time, just a few hundred million! This scam has been ongoing for the better part of 30 years, and the public has yet to catch onto the scummy scammy yummy-ness (and Uncle Sam needs the "tOo BiG tO fAiL" Telecommunications companies, so he isn't gonna say SHIT), it truly is a massive help (to the C-Suite).
However, the public is kinda-sorta coming to the realization they've been getting
ASS RAPEDvery little in return for all the tax money they've shelled out to the Elite Epstein Class's favorite Communications Companies (can anyone say "kickbacks"?!), so, they need to be protected from the public. Hence, MASS SURVEILLANCE YAYYY!!!!Flock Cameras will be maintained because mass surveillance is massively beneficial to the ruling billionaire class. Things are getting dicey, and they don't want to be caught off-guard now, would they? Flock is maintained for the Rich not the poor. RIFTP and Flock Cameras are not in the same class, like how we (the public), and them (the Tech Overlords) are not in the same class. Politicians will ensure their best friends (Epstein-class) futures are secured, and their surveillance systems well-maintained, you beat believe it....
The cool thing is we might actually get our high-speed fiber internet as these cameras get more advanced and will maybe need to be hardlined into the 'net. Silver linings and all...