I am just being pragmatic.
This stuff has to be normalized with a carrot long before you can use a stick on it.
There is always a black market, unless there is completely free trade.
When over 10% of the population uses the black market, it is no longer black, it is normal.
However, it also becomes very hard for the govern-cement to do anything about it.
When you drive something underground, you have no way of controlling it.
In Hong Kong there are entire stores that disappear when the Feds show up.
The really threatening part about your post is that its a psy-op.
They are trying to make us think that they have this much control over everything.
See, even China is doing it.
When in reality self-driving cars ignore bikes because the program isn't sophisticated enough to plot their potential paths. Bums are recognized as street furniture. And there are things a person can do to make a self driving car crash / freak out.
Facial recognition... everyone has a twin. And people get falsely recognized all the time. It is a very poor system to begin with, made even worse by the crappy photos they have on file. It can't even do a 1/10th of what they make it out to do.
Thus, they are trying desperately to make us feel they are watching our every move and will crack down on us whenever they want. Its a psyop to get us to self regulate. And that is scary.
Good points. You might be onto something. But it appears as if the noose is tightening right now with all this legislation implemented...