WOW. Super disturbing. Replacing actual products with pictures of products on store shelves? Holy shit. Another dystopian consideration is that more money gets fueled into law enforcement systems, yet crime and drug use in our streets have only gotten worse. This is similar to how we pour the most money into healthcare than other countries, and we're more chronically sick than ever.
So when people say mass surveillance is needed to address crime, or all the money going into Big Pharma is to keep Americans healthy, there's a clear cognitive dissonance we need to address here.
RE: Hollow Urban Centers