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And there's research suggesting people don't value privacy in the abstract, but they do when there are concrete choices.

A 2023 study showed, what was it, 86% of Google users wouldn't pay for abstract privacy.

Exactly.

The sources suggest that when you make it a tangible economic choice, not just dense legal text, people might value it quite differently.

The information gap shrinks.

Well, there are related models, like Switzerland's Medata Health Cooperative.

Members agree to share medical data for research.

OK.

But, and this is key, they keep granular control.

They can see exactly who accessed their info, when, and they can pull that permission back anytime.

It's moving consent from, yeah, an opaque legal fiction to something real-time and controllable.

That's another major argument.

Micro consent could offer real benefits, especially for people struggling economically.

That analogy where oil revenue gets paid out to residents annually.

It shows that kind of basic income doesn't necessarily kill work incentives, but it does reduce poverty.

That's the idea.

The Berggruen Institute's framework from 2025 talks about this.

They acknowledge data's value is networked.

My data is not that useful alone.

Exactly.