Thread · 3 tweets · 12 Oct 2022

Except that people don't barter PD. That would require a modicum of choice and some degree of pricing, even accounting for barter indivisibilities. Neither is the case. More pointedly, the data economy is overwhelmingly about inferences and not about anything subjects bring.

If I get the time of day and your IP address, that might well be enough to infer that you dislike pineapple on pizza, own a leaf blower, and vote conservative simply because people from your area who read my content at that time of day heavily over index on those properties.

That's not barter and the alienation isn't in the data.