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Which leads to maybe the scariest part, losing long-term autonomy.

Shoshana Zuboff's idea, surveillance capitalism, moving from knowledge to power to what was it?

Instrumentarian power.

What does that actually mean for me if I sell my data?

Oh!

So life becomes predictable, managed.

Wow.

So selling data today isn't just selling data.

It's selling bits of your future self, your future decisions.

And we're bad at weighing that future harm against present needs.

Which brings it all back to this fundamental question, if privacy is a human right.

And human rights are supposed to be inalienable things you can't give away or sell.

Or does treating privacy as inalienable mean some things just have to stay outside the market, period, to protect dignity, even if it costs potential income?

OK, so taking a step back, looking at both sides from the sources, it feels like, well, like there's no easy answer.

It's a genuine conundrum.

Like how markets can empower people with compensation.

And how transparency seems good, you know, clear pricing for data.

And the last one, property rights seem to offer control.

So the debate really boils down to can privacy's value be captured in individual deals or does it serve this bigger collective social function that markets will always miss?

So we've really seen how these micro consent deals, while they systematically undervalue the future harm.