When I left Silicon Valley, it was to escape the bubble. What you wrote is what I felt. But in hindsight, I think "Silicon Valley is out of touch with the real world" is too innocuous. Obviously, it is, but a lot of the "elite" aren't just happily enjoying their bubble. They are intent on shaping "the real world", and they have enough resources and influence to be successful some of the time.
I doubt very much that the masses will be scanning their retinas into The Orb so that they can get Worldcoin, but these people are not going to stop coming for your retina, your DNA, even more of your digital fingerprints, etc. Sadly, they're eventually likely to get it all.
If I have access to the data of 95% of people in a society, I have enough to model and predict behavior, and maybe even the hooks to inject information and influence future behavior.
The long tail of paranoid weirdos who spend all their time and energy fighting to maintain their privacy are irrelevant to the goal of societal domination.
FWIW I don't spend a lot of energy; it's become habitual. I just don't hand out my PII simply because someone asked. And if people ask me for PII when I don't think they need it, I'll deal with the hassle of finding another way to solve my problem.
I know that my attitude is irrelevant to the behaviour of the snoopers. I'm not trying to train them.
I had a conversation that touched on privacy once with a person I met at a bar who works for Big Evil Tech Co. and she basically came out and said this in slightly more diplomatic terms.
I doubt very much that the masses will be scanning their retinas into The Orb so that they can get Worldcoin, but these people are not going to stop coming for your retina, your DNA, even more of your digital fingerprints, etc. Sadly, they're eventually likely to get it all.