Imagine the legion of comptrollers and the AI that could be put into use here. Say you've used up your egg-quota for the month but want to buy some for your mother next block over? To ensure "flexibility", an AI/human system of arbitrators can be used to make allowances for that. With absolutely no spying, yes? Which would in under 20 years condition everyone growing up under such a system to think of it as normal and natural. O'Brien's boot-face metaphore looms closer and closer.