The phrase “You’ll own nothing and be happy” only applies to subscriptions and rentals (so material things to speak via the digital market) but what would happen if we ourselves don’t even own our right to live (body and mind) in which they can control what organs should remain functional or straight up kill you by shutting down your body.
As in, every part that defines YOU is “rented” (brain, heart, eyes, hands, feet, genes, etc). Might as well be considered a cyborg or bot than a person, as in every baby is born as artificial than human (equivalent to having a barcode for eternity as a birthmark surveilling your biomedical data from pulse, brain activity, motor functions, etc).
Well, they don’t have that power yet since people today are born random (it’s R&G) as human beings unless they injected chemicals into the fetus altering what the baby will look like upon birth (but it won’t convert humans into cyborgs). Existing humans today are not cyborgs, so it’ll be hard to turn internal organs into a subscription.
The brain is still yours (for now) unless they can remotely erase your memories (that requires a chip implant being inserted into someone’s brain for full control) and controlling someone’s heart will need a pacemaker or a full artificial heart. Both involve notifying the subject rather than convertly surveilling their bodily functions without surgery.
Asafum@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
In the US we’re sort of at that point to some lesser degree. There is no right to food, water, shelter, or healthcare, so if you don’t sell yourself (or work for yourself) you don’t get to eat and therefore would die.