"But the privacy divide is deeper than that. Are the poor begging for extra helpings of privacy? No, not much, not even where they could use it. Pollsters in England have found that when they ask people in hard-up communities what things would improve their lives, the top three items almost always include more closed-circuit TV cameras on the streets. The people who get worked up about universal ID cards, DNA databases and CCTV monitoring are almost always the wealthy elite.
It’s the poor who are forced to live with crime, violence, harassment from unstable and marginalized people — exactly the sort of stuff that these supposedly privacy-invading conveniences are designed to prevent. When your life is hard, privacy equals isolation equals death. If you consider it a right, it’s a pretty good sign that you’ve got too much money and too little to worry about."

"The rhetoric of social mobility helps to legitimize  class hierarchies, by maintaining the pretence that  management is a technical skills. In fact, bosses' power derives from other sources.And what's worst of all is that such hierarchies might not be needed anyway. In many firms, "management" is either a redundant function - because good companies run themselves - or it's worse than useless."