I’m ideologically transparency extremist. This means I want absolute openness for everyone. Overwhelming majority of people on lemmy and other places disagree with me, which means that statistically I’m wrong.
I have some strong arguments for my side and most argumentation from your side is just common trolling or logical fallacies, which makes me think that I’m correct.
Even with that, the software I use is probably more private than solid portion of members of this community, becuase almost everything I use is open source.
I want to give your side another chance. I hope for polite and fruitful discussion.
Another way to think about this whole privacy debate is something I see way too rarely in non-European and English-speaking communities: data protection. Sometimes you don’t care if others know this or that, but knowledge is power, and knowledge about you is power over you.
Example: An employer might not employ you because they find out that you have mental health issues. In Germany, an employer cannot legally request this information, but if you were transparent about it from the beginning, you might have a hard time finding a job.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recht_auf_Lüge
The employer should have the right to make their decision knowing everything about the “product”
Can you provide anything factual that supports this statement?
We assume capitalistic model of economy is good (nobody is making a transaction that doesn’t benefit them on a net benefit basis, therefore all transactions provide net benefit to the society).
To make a correct decision, both sides should have as much informations about what they’re acquiring. Therefore more informations=better