The issue isn't what they are doing with the cameras, it's that the cameras are there at all, and that people are so unwilling to risk losing their jobs that they gladly give up their basic human dignity. We are not live stock, but we are being groomed to accept being treated as such. The company could have bought units with only outward facing cameras. They chose not too. Once people get comfortable with the indignity of the camera being there, they will push for being able to use the inward facing camera. And people won't resist that either cause "muh job".
It is a classic behavioral psychology method of operant conditioning: systematic desensitization. Desensitization is used beneficially to help with anxiety and phobias. But it can also be used to get people used to conditions they would have felt were unacceptable at some point, by introducing stimulus a little at a time. Sort of how we are being conditioned to accept totalitarianism.
