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Your sources point to something like $200 billion annually extracted from user data.
And the people creating that value, they get basically nothing meaningful back.
That's the starting point.
People like Jaron Lanier, the computer scientist and economist E. Glenn Weil, they talk about data dignity.
Meaning individuals should get property rights over their data and crucially get paid for how it's used, how it fuels AI and all these services.
That's the power imbalance.
So they propose these mediators of individual data.
Think of them like specialized digital unions.
They pull data rights from maybe thousands or millions of users.
Then they negotiate collectively.
It's designed to address that huge power asymmetry.
The media acts as a gatekeeper, controls access, forces a negotiation that just doesn't happen right now.
Yeah, that consent fatigue we all feel.
Clicking agree on policies no one reads or understands.
That's not real choice.