Sunday, October 21, 2018

Google Should Be Paying Us To Use Our Data

And so should Facebook:

In using Big Tech’s services, we manufacture a portion of its capital in real time. Property rights over that portion – for all of us, rather than for any of us – should be the basis of a universal basic income.

You can read the rest @
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/social-ownership-of-google-big-tech-by-yanis-varoufakis-2018-10

I like this idea. Why shouldn't we be paid? After all, it IS our data they're using to get rich.

By the way, Yanis' ideas didn't work so well in Greece. Should we listen to him, or not?

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