The free circulation and exchange of goods are the lifeblood of a truly free market.
If every transaction is monitored, recorded and tied to an identity, the market ceases to be free and becomes managed, controlled and surveilled.
Monero gives people control over their own money, while voting just lets you pick someone else to make decisions for you. The illusion of choice vs the real individual purchasing power.
ProbeLab studied the Monero network and found most public nodes run on one cloud provider, many acting like “spy” nodes. While Monero’s payments stay private, its network layer shows centralization and possible surveillance risks.
https://probelab.io/blog/peering-into-privacy-a-deep-dive…