And what is the end game?

"Basically the mass surveillance bandwagon will roll on and on. The NSA and GCHQ will continue to expand and gobble up data, power and money."

And what is the end game.... a small clique of people controlling the rest with a mass of computers and the money printing machine in their hands.

Instead of 50000 people needed to control the populace, 5000, 500, 50.... 5....1?

I wonder if the guys at the bottom can see the future they're creating. I wonder if the people who think they're in the 5000 can see that they won't be in the 500.