Except the trade offs only go one way. Its a rachet. You never get more free, open systems. Over time your life and the life of your children only gets more bound. It's frog boiling.

You're displaying the exact naivety he's trying to point out.

Maybe, but these types of complaints have a very long history. Photographs are an invasion of privacy. And many forms of technology. We are embedded in complex societies. The idea of being a sacrosanct private silo is a Western mode of thinking, and not an old one either.