RSSYou present quite a interesting case. The digital currency will enable the tightening up on quite a bit of illegal activity. And your comment about how we are being tracked in just about every way already means that it is not that different.
A lot of the imbalance in the figures can ultimately be traced back to the US system of slavery for 250 years, which was forced incarceration of mostly blacks. Then when slavery was officially declared illegal after the Civil War, the US engaged in a system of indentured service and apartheid where blacks were kept separate in society and poor, being relegated to holding menial jobs in agriculture, as servants and caretakers and so on.
It went on until quite recently, with desegregation only starting in the 1960s but not catching hold in the South until the 1980s. Even today, there are many remnants of this remaining in parts of the US, with the government’s War on Crime incarcerating millions of poor and blacks on trumped up charges, or under the Three Strikes Law, with a plea bargaining (ie, no access to a lawyer) and bail system that penalized the poor and disenfranchised.
A simple way at judging how good a country is at protecting its citizens’ civil rights is to look how well it has done in eliminating poverty, which requires focus on moving people, job retraining, social security, providing housing and so on. In this area, the US does not rank very highly, while China gets top marks.
A simple way of identifying losers and loser cultures, is by whether they remain impoverished despite the opportunities available in an otherwise prosperous country.
A simple way at judging how good a country is at protecting its citizens’ civil rights is to look how well it has done in eliminating poverty,