Unbreakable cryptography is much more about protecting IP than privacy

Or at least, the title of this post is a thesis worth considering.

There's no doubt that cryptography is necessary for privacy. But is that the true impetus for its development. I don't think so. Privacy of the ordinary person, i.e., a wage laborer like you or me, does not have a value in the system of capital. Neither does it generate value. So why would any capitalist spend time and money developing things like unbreakable cryptography, whether quantum or otherwise? What would be the point?

What does have value are labor power and property. In a world full of digital property, and in which many things which are not fundamentally digital — like music, movies, money, etc., — can captured by the digital form, there is a lot of potential value to protect. Imagine unbreakable DRM. In order to truly prevent the "theft" of software, the total enforcement of rights to "intellectual property," unbreakable cryptography would be an absurd boon.

Something to think about.