People say "monopoly on violence" as if it's a bad thing. As if the opposite of that is no violence at all. But the opposite is commonality of violence which was the case before government became strong enough to enforce monopoly on violence and still is the case in places where the government is weak enough to lose the monopoly.

Monopoly on violence is the most significant cultural development that allowed incredible wealth and societal development.

Currently we are in the age of commonality of surveillance. If this turns out to be harmful enough we might as well move towards monopoly on surveillance and it might be an improvement.

Personally I think it won't be necessary.

I'm sure of one thing. Surveillance won't go away because it's a useful technological tool.