I removed "engineer" because it's not necessary to the broader premise that more highly skilled people tend to be both more trusted in our society and more likely to know how to get away with a crime.

I didn't translate "banal, lascivious panopticon" because it was it's one of those faux-profound images that adds very little.

It's hardly revelatory to tell HN readers that people are troublingly comfortable with constant tracking by corporations and governments.