It fills me with existential dread to know that there are smart people out there who don't see this as an atrocity waiting to happen. I'll go ahead and guess that you've never suffered at the hands of a capricious authority figure.
Maybe think of privacy like closet space? You might not need what you have right now, but you wouldn't want to share it with the world either, would you?
I think the biggest problem people have isn't the lack of privacy in the systems today, but the asymmetric use of/access to the information. Our reliance upon centralized hubs for exchanging information gives more power to those who control those centralized hubs, compared to say if all the information collected by all those hubs were to be made immediately available to all for free. Decentralized hubs will spread the power out to more actors besides gov/the rich/hackers.
The desire for privacy is universally shared by people across all countries. Sadly not everyone understands how technology works and how online privacy violations affect them, their loved ones and strangers.
Not to mention when you're stuck living in a shithole then fighting for privacy might not be your biggest concern (especially when doing so is likely to put you in great danger).
