I don't agree with the idea we don't need privacy. I see tracking every purchase you make as a serious threat. The BIG DATA collected by observing your buying habits reveal a HUGE amount about your lifestyle, beliefs, travel, you name it. They have a comprehensive dossier on you via this, even more revealing and invasive that Facebook, which is bad enough.



On your last point concerning there being no true free marketplace, I agree. There is always state influence b/c there is nowhere on the planet you can go where anarchy prevails... yet. I hope you'll see it in your lifetime, you're much younger than I, but it is going to take a major shift in the mind of mankind to expunge or adequately reduce (blind) believe in authority before that happens.



Not even the "black market" is free from government's influence, b/c they influence supply by making things illegal. Similar in the crypto marketplace but less so. It also has tax ramifications for many people.



IMO we need stealth, in part so people have an alternative to store their wealth outside of the mainstream banking cartel and beyond the reach of those who would target you to take it away.



Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Maker about creating more liquidity, i.e. market makers? I thought when I first heard of it it was abut the "maker" community of electronics hackers, i.e. hackerspace, also a very exciting arena for us geeks and frontier pushers. That's where 3D printing came from.