To me this is one the biggest quality of life issues possible, never being able to relax and be yourself, the government and someone watching every little thing you do waiting to jump on you.
Constantly being watched by citizens in the public space hoping to capitalize on a moment, to fine you for profit, no wonder people are uneasy when they enter the public spaces of modern America.
Yes, a modern version of this (though tech does the lion’s share of it now):
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/creating-a-culture-of-denunciation/
“ To me this is one the biggest quality of life issues possible, never being able to relax and be yourself, the government and someone watching every little thing you do waiting to jump on you.”
Just like Red China
I think the Nazi and Soviet citizens had this problem of constantly being watched, often by their own children.
The vast majority of cell phone users either are unaware of or do not care that their cell phones are major monitoring devices. They track movement, allow monitoring of calls and texts, make available pictures and recordings as well as a contact list of associates. And I personally know of one case where a person was recorded with their own phone and that recording was sent to yet another person just to let everyone know it could be done.