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Yeah, it's a fascinating one.
Or maybe analyze an emotional tag I put on some content.
But it's not just about a new way to click agree.
The sources highlight this deep ethical and economic tension.
Potentially, yes.
Moving away from that standard model where corporations just extract value.
And this is the core conflict.
The moment consent becomes currency, you risk making privacy a class good, something only the wealthy can afford, essentially.
That's really the heart of it.
We're at this crossroads.
Is privacy an economic asset?
Something you trade?
Which, okay, if it is, it needs heavy regulation to stop coercion.
Or is it something else?
Something non-transferable, inalienable maybe, to protect quality even if, well, even if that denies some people needed income.
We have to look hard at both sides.
The current system is often called surveillance capitalism.