Not everyone could accept sharing their thoughts with others.
For intelligence operatives accustomed to keeping secrets, the "Great Collective" was practically like stripping them naked and forcing them to lay everything bare before the public!
Not only did this approach greatly violate the normal social conventions of ninja, it could even bring about deadly consequences!
But from the village administrators' perspective, it might also have been a good opportunity to distinguish the loyal intelligence personnel from the disloyal...
After all, once connected to the Great Collective, creatures like double agents and traitors would have nowhere to hide. From the standpoint of improving departmental efficiency, it was an excellent chance to cut costs and increase productivity.
Of course, no one was perfect.
Even if they were not spies sent by enemy nations, how many intelligence workers—constantly occupied with betraying others and preventing others from betraying them—could truly claim that they had nothing they could not tell others?
This meant that if the authorities tightened the restrictions too much or pushed the Great Collective program too aggressively, tragedies involving innocent people would inevitably occur. It might even be exploited by those with ulterior motives to arbitrarily broaden the scope of the crackdown and turn it into a tool for eliminating dissidents.
...By convention, whenever such a difficult choice arose, it was time for Comrade Pot King to jump out and slam his foot on the accelerator!
Yet interestingly enough, after nearly completely losing the Hokage's trust, Root and the village leadership had somehow undergone a complete reversal in their positions~
The major ninja clans and nobles were urging Root to provide all the equipment required for the "Great Collective," so that they could get on board as soon as possible and make up for the gap in strength between themselves and the