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Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Then can market transactions ever truly respect that?

Can consent under economic pressure with massive information gaps about future harms ever be truly meaningful?

That's the philosophical core of the argument against marketization.

It really is.

The sources lay out these fundamental paradoxes.

But they also risk entrenching inequality, forcing the vulnerable to sell what the wealthy can keep.

But the information asymmetry is so vast.

Can users really understand the long-term risk of algorithmic harm when they click sell?

Probably not.

But maybe privacy is something more than property.

Maybe it's an inalienable right tied to dignity and social fairness, something markets just can't properly value.

That seems to be the conclusion from the sources.

There's no way forward that doesn't involve sacrificing something important, either potential economic gains for some or the principle that core autonomy shouldn't be for sale.

It definitely gives us a lot to think about.

And maybe it raises a final question for you, the listener.

Given this problem of bounded rationality, that we're just not equipped to weigh those long term costs against immediate needs.

If society does decide to allow these markets, what then?

Right.

Short of just banning them outright.