[gyanchawdhary]

Yeah .. no . Firstly there’s really no such thing as “surveillance capitalism.” If we’re going to start coining terms like that, then why stop there .. lets call Oracle and Postgres “database capitalism or Microsoft vs Apple as “OS capitalism .. or Salesforce “CRM capitalism,” or even Google Docs as spreadsheet capitalism .. anyone who writes a an article with this sort of title is usually (actually almost always) a fraud

[jazzyjackson]

That's your opinion and that's fine but surveillance capitalism is not a freshly minted term - it simply supposes that the behavioral data collected on all of us is a new form of capital to be accumulated, exploited, and hoarded

[gyanchawdhary]

Yes, that I agree with .. but it’s still a pointless term crafted more for optics than substance. It doesn’t really add clarity, it just feels like linguistic inflation. Same vibe as when people say “weaponisation” to inject drama and a false sense of danger