Thread · 2 tweets · 14 Mar 2022

I hear you, but I think you're making your life hard by thinking about data. It's a weird commodity and it's hard to cast everything as labour. If I read an interesting article or watch a fun show, does it become labour because someone monetised the data?

There *are* things people do that should count as labour when someone monetises it: creating content for platforms (as we're doing now), providing quality filters (eg. liking), that kind of stuff. I think Nick Carr has written about that.