Inevitabilism’s claim to ubiquity may shade into new forms of coercion.

Evidence

Inevitabilism precludes choice and voluntary participation. It leaves no room for human will as the author of the future. This raises questions: At what point does inevitabilism’s claim to ubiquitous extraction and execution shade into abuse? Will inevitabilism’s utopian declarations summon new forms of coercion designed to quiet restless populations unable to quell their hankering for a future of their choice? — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 710

Categorization

• QUESTION: Zuboff poses speculative questions about coercion but does not answer them here—worth tracking where this thread goes in later chapters.
• SEED: Angle: ‘the naturalistic fallacy of scale’ as a tool for spotting when tech platform dominance is dressed up as inevitability.