If you think of consumer purchases when you think of financial privacy, you live in a bubble of privilege.

There are literally countries where people get sent to jail for giving money to pro-democracy groups or journalists.

If you're an American, imagine a scenario where rights are stripped away from people at the federal level and donating to those causes becomes illegal.

Surveillance has impacts far beyond your consumerist lifestyle.

They’re only private until Amazon has a leak or decides to sell it to the highest bidder.

What happens when something you want to buy becomes illegal?

Imagine if your government banned weed or abortion pills or porn. Or if your country gets taken over by a dictator and you want to fund the opposition

Yes, black markets have never existed and can only be done through the existence of cryptocurrency.

That or you find a plug for your weed (like half of Europe does), abortion pills (like half of the US is about to do) or porn, and you pay with old fashioned cash. I know, not having one click order of your weed is horribly harsh.

private to whom? ridiculous statement.