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Why you should get paid for your data | Jennifer Zhu Scott

TED Business

CHAPTER

The New Form of Collective Poverty

Seven out of top ten most valuable companies in the world are tech companies that either directly generate profit from data or are empowered by data. Data has immense value, but is sentrally controlled and owned. You are all working raw materials for those large data companies, but none of you are paid. So once again, undoubtedly equal. We're equally poor. Somebody else owns everything and we own nothing.

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