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Re:Prove you are not an evil corporate person by lisper on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:03PM (#16553085)
> Why would we expect to get paid for two seconds of thought?

Because the results of those two seconds of thought have value.

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Re:Prove you are not an evil corporate person by wintermutesGhst on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:38PM (#16553367)
Further, we don't know the value. Thought seems cheap to us, but it is clearly valuable to the companies that use it. How do we know it is a fair deal without knowing our thoughts' worth?

It seems unfair to ask us to trade for glass beads.

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