What do they really want?? They want us to have nothing and be happy.
What do we want? Freedom, security and equality.
Of these, freedom for us individualists is the greatest. (In that video, the author mentions China. If it "works" for them, it could be because they put the community first, before the individual, and they seek harmony over freedom.)
Freedom means free to do, think, and live according to my own choices, with minimal interference from the state, big business, or social coercions. It's freedom from interference and it's freedom to develop my maximum according to my possibilities.
It's a qualitative thing, how you feel, but could some quantitative scale be assembled against which the unique ID number identifier proposal could be judged?
The benefits Starmer offers in that video clip are poppycock. The implementation risks are in that video. Where are the costs to us living under this freaky control regime? We in the West no longer live in true democracies, and unfortunately the "technocrats" who govern operate a global governance organisation, they view government as a tool that functions best under competent leadership, irrespective of the democratic quality of the system, except that recent leaders defer to Washington and show little sign of competence - look at this ID card idea ... will it turn out like HS2 or the poll tax or the Covid lockdowns - examples where competent leaders may still make poor decisions if they lack a robust guiding philosophy. Except rhat now we have Starmer.
Contrast this with sadly departed Frank Field, influenced by a fading Christian socialist tradition. Frank Field emphasised the dangers of rationalism (aka technical competence) in politics. He advocated for acknowledging human nature's limitations and promoting "self-interested altruism".
What's left of the benefits of being alive today? To answer this q, just assess how much control we individuals would have left over our lives across political, economic, social, digital, and psychological dimensions.
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