The largest reason why this book excels is how it uses the history of business development as its evidence. Davies identifies the players, their ideas, methods of implementation and because he is so detailed on it all his explanation of the results becomes sound. This book more than anything is advocating for the political recognition of public health and well-being showing how the structures we have that base well-being on individual "tracking" and "surveillance" are a conservative and ultimately oppressive mechanism meant only to maintain the system we have. There is no want to overhaul how we do things, we want to mold individuals en masse to be able to constantly adjust to how we do things, our government wants conformity most of all and thus all data they mine for ends with the goal of how to achieve that goal. The dominant theory is always prioritized over the actual people.

A must-read from where I stand.