"If people like you in the cultures that you're part of decide that surveillance is cool and exciting, that's more talent to take the billions of dollars and vast intellectual challenges of figuring out how to eliminate the vestiges of privacy. If they decide it's uncool and sketchy, that's more talent that goes elsewhere and does something else."
And why you shouldn't work for the NSA. This scene from 'Good Will Hunting' comes to mind ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw