I can’t wait for people and companies to realize “oh no, we only wanted to give easy electricity access to rich people’s cars, not to the homeless people, let’s add another layer of dystopia to fix that”

Homeless or not, their biggest concern is probably whether or not customers are paying for the electricity they use.

The homeless folk can nick the nice thick copper to strike back at the establishment. Or to by drugs.

It's just a matter of DRM-ing the smart connectors.

I don’t know if I’d describe safeguards against misusing electrical systems as dystopian. If a system is made for a specific purpose and misuse is highly dangerous and disruptive, I’d certainly support reasonable safeguards.

And after they implement the dystopia they'll inevitably use it to go after petty deviance by people who are rich enough to pay fines and leave the homeless who were the pretext for the dystopia un-bothered except just enough to let the useful idiots continue to think that that is in fact the purpose of the system.

Not sure if it’s more dystopian to not be able to have nice things (easy EV charging) or to prohibit the homeless from destructively misusing the EV chargers.

there are actually junctions (and sometimes complete with outlets) in many lampposts so city employees can use them to power their equipment

wait until they learn to mine bitcoins.

wait until the people that know about mining bitcoins are homeless