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Comment by nesky

21 hours ago

Cost kind of stops the government from sending goons right now, sure some governments do it but, it's costly at scale.

Missiles are a lot more expensive and much less reusable than goons though. If the nation state can’t afford the goons, it can’t afford to missile you either

  • With the digital panopticon neither goons nor missles are really necessary. Opressive forces can just disable your spending and travel credits. If they need you dead or in custody they can just grab you the next time you pop up on camera near one of their agents.

The cost effectiveness is the intimidation and chilling effects on a wider population, when that can be achieved with a small number of actual goons.