The technological capacity to control us is exponential. It doesn't matter if we're talking about spying on the mobile phones of pro-independence activists, with or without a court order, or about the shoe ads you receive after having a conversation about shoes on your mobile phone. Because that's the other issue: we're giving away our data like water. But let's get to the point.
In recent months, a new concept has entered our lives that, given its growing popularity, could well aspire to become the neologism of the year: Verifactu. You'd go to the market to buy something, and the vendor at the stall would tell you about Verifactu. The self-employed, used to all kinds of regulatory abuse, took it in stride: it was clear that, sooner or later, invoices would have to be connected to a computerized invoicing system so they could be sent immediately to the tax authorities. Verifactu? It's not like that anymore.
Tax collection zeal has been unpopular since time immemorial, but it is outrageous when compared to lax spending. That a person like Mazón, still at large, benefit from a bonus of more than 600 euros per month As a member of a parliamentary committee that has not met even once since the start of the legislature, he should be subject to averipenquesThe same system could be applied to the profits from the sales of King Juan Carlos's book, whom we would never have imagined promoting it with a cheap advertisement, like those infomercials that aired in the wee hours. The money obtained from his self-whitewashing efforts should go towards the recovery of democratic memory.
