So, there are a whole suite of technologies, called privacy enhancing technologies, or PETs, that specifically want to recreate the condition of anonymous cash in the digital realm. So, my suggestion is just to invest only in the companies, or the social entrepreneurs, that utilize a full suite of zero knowledge technologies. There are mature technologies, these are not research level, but they did not get as much investment as they should, because exactly as you say: it earns more profit if you can persuade your so-called customers into buying more things they don’t need. So, because of this surveillance capitalism profit motive, the zero knowledge and privacy enhancing technologies need a different source of funding. And Bitcoin, and my public infrastructure projects the India Stack and the GovStack in the ITU, and so on.

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