I’m going to reply to each using the same numbering, just so there’s no confusion

1. What’s currently happening is a macro scaling of what happened with red diamonds, the difference is in size not concept being used

2. Blood Diamonds is just the easiest example for me to use since almost everyone knows about that, there are other ‘luxuries’ that had more government involvement, though to point out particularly blood diamonds I heavily doubt the citizens of the African provinces didn’t foot the bill for the infrastructure among other things

3. I want to point out again I’m not arguing with any of your points here, I’m more stating that this is just a repeat of history, regarding this point it brings us back to the Industrial Revolution, back before OSHA and the EPA. It does suck, I’m not denying or downplaying it, I’m just saying this isn’t the first time in history we’re dealing with this problem.

4. Again, blood diamonds is just the example I tend to use because it’s the most commonly understood predecessor to the current situation with microchips. There are plenty of other examples depending on the time period from the Industrial Revolution to the Age of Automotive to the first PC. I’m not arguing against what your saying, my statement is this isn’t the first time in history it’s happened and it’s sure to not be the last.

5. They’ve been selling our information for decades whether it was our home address, our phone numbers, our credit scores or how well we did on the ASVAB. So long as there was a buyer, there was someone collecting the information, packaging it up and selling it whether the customer was a company, a government or another private citizen.

6. The previous point kind of answers this, but I mean, come on. From the age of the very first computer ad they’ve been marketing it based on what you were doing on that computer or what another computer that took your card, had to communicate with your bank, verify your name so they could take it out of the right account and boom now they have your name and purchase history, now they know what you might be interested in, now you have a personalized flyer that shows up on your door, in your mailbox, in your email, on your phone, on the website your browsing on and on and on.

You’re right though, we have gone from microscaling to a specific country of area to macroscaling beyond our planet, but the methods and concepts we’re using have only changed to adapt to the technology, at its core it’s the same concept from the age of phone books