I am not saying that I'd want to make my transactions public. Rather, there isn't enough incentive to switch to monero JUST because you can keep such trivial transactions private. It's not a big enough motivation for most people.
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Of course I admit I have things I never want other people to find out about me. In fact, in comparison with the world (not the crypto community) I believe I lean towards the side that values privacy. That said, if in the future there is technology that can completely eliminate crimes before they are committed, because everything about the criminal's mindset is known, and that a computer can analyze exactly what I want, for example, what movie would interest me the most at that particular time, instead of having me search google for recommendations, read dozens of them then end up getting "tricked" by a misleading review/rec and wasting my time on mediocre movies.
I can certainly see benefits in having info collected.
The net sum of data collection is to build a prison around you 24/7 monitoring. It is the slow creep of it that is the insidious part most just don't see. It's just like slowly boiling a frog, it sits there and dies. Those born today are born into a prison they cannot even see. Have you ever been stopped by a cop and asked where your going, where your going to and why? These are infringements of your liberty and what if you don't want to answer them or lie and they have your surveillance at their fingertips? Maybe we should all just carry our movement papers with us. Letting these infringements pass without fighting them is doing yourself and more importantly your descendants inexorable harm.