Re:Why we should end the data economy
by infogulch on Friday June 04, 2021 @01:48PM
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I think the root problem is the indirect nature of that dollar value. It's not concrete / obvious enough for normal people to understand it. Seems to be a sales / marketing problem as much as a technical one.
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And I could imagine a similar line of reasoning being applied for the value of the land native Americans “sold” to the colonists - when they themselves didn’t have a conception of such ownership before or after that encounter.