What does privacy mean under surveillance capitalism?

Re:What does privacy mean under surveillance capitalism? by aaron-santos on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @05:59PM (#25512431)

It's a necessary condition. The curriculum is crafted specifically in this way. See for example A TEACHER GUIDE TO THE CALIFORNIA ECONOMICS STANDARDS[1].

From unit 1.2:

> HUMAN CAPITAL[Many textbooks discuss “labor” instead of ‘human capital.” We use “human capital” because it involves much more than physical attributes and helps students focus on the reason why they are in school.]

Student's earliest exposure to formal economic education begins with definitions that deceive people into believing they are capitalists when they are in fact selling their labor power for wages.

[1] - https://www.ccee.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/OTHER_PDFS...

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Re:What does privacy mean under surveillance capitalism? by pmiller2 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @06:01PM (#25512459)

Yeah, I know that. There's no easier way to create a permanent underclass than to restrict access to education and stifle ideas that are threatening to the status quo.

BTW, the 9 point outline in that PDF is actually a good framework for understanding and learning to navigate a capitalist, market economy, so I wouldn't say it exactly makes your point.

Edit: Ah, ok, the indoctrination portion of the program comes a little later on in the file, lol. :P. Consider the last part of my last sentence withdrawn.

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