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Privacy and other Human Rights should not be financiallized
There are many things in our life that if you measure them with money, you are thought of as a monster. And to constrain our discussion of the value of a child to the monetary loss arising from kidnapping is something that intuitively, we all understand to be monstrous. You cannot sell your child. It doesn't matter how much the child is worth to you, you cannot sell them. Privacy is a lot more like one of those sui generos valuable things that if we try to use monetary systems to late them produce bad outcomes then it is like automobiles or a seramic tiles. And human rights are, broadly speaking, things that we shouldn't sellthat shouldn't be commodities.