What I thought was most interesting was the statement at the very end: "The poetic nature of writing in grievance in Arabic is much more effective than in English." Differences between languages are so interesting to me. Anyone here know Arabic and feel the same way as the author? What makes Arabic different in that sense?
My private information is worth $30
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#12Edit: iirc that was about $750
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#13The issue is, that your personal info is valuable to only you. It also doesn't reflect character worth or personal worth. That's how people gave their privacy away to apps - they've realized this is the best deal they can get for it. Conversely, when the court tries to estimate what is the financial impact of such a leak, there's not much to base it off. I've just finished The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and it's…
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#15Rembered that time when Ford estimated human life to not be worth enough in case of lawsuit to add a $5 piece to prevent their cars from exploding on rear impact. I love faceless capitalism. Edit: iirc that was about $750
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#16It is my opinion that, as with anything that can be copied infinitely for free, his (and my) personal information is worth $0.
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#17Reading investor reports is interesting as well, to see what companies think you're worth to them. Check out Roku's ARPU - it's something like $40 a year now per user in marketing.
I wonder how much things would cost if we cut out the entire multibillion dollar advertising industry and just paid for things directly.
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#19Planet money did a a great segment on how these work and why America is set up this way. I learned a lot about it. You should definitely take a listen[1]. If you aren’t on Apple then search “What to do when you’re in a class action?” And find the podcast (not the summary article).
1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834...
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#20The issue is, that your personal info is valuable to only you. It also doesn't reflect character worth or personal worth. That's how people gave their privacy away to apps - they've realized this is the best deal they can get for it. Conversely, when the court tries to estimate what is the financial impact of such a leak, there's not much to base it off. I've just finished The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and it's…
I think $30 at a high enough volume accounts for the high revenue.