[postingpals]

This too is a unicorn fantasy.

You claim the reason people are not selling their data is because they are too obsessed with culture or something. In reality there is an imbalance of negotiation power. A company can sell their data because they understand the game and have leverage over other companies. They can say "buy our data, it's valuable and there's only one of us". A citizen cannot do that.

Besides your data is already in circulation and they don't necessarily need it to be tied to you in order for it to be a generally useful human data point. How do you 'tax' that which has been stripped of your ownership and distributed far and wide?

Nevertheless I don't think you're going to get this put into law. Legislation is an unstable and unfair method of change that is biased towards people who can afford to partake in it.

[andrekandre]

> Legislation is an unstable and unfair method of change that is biased towards people who can afford to partake in it.

whats the solution then?

[sudosysgen]

Yes. At this point we have absolutely no choice but to review our economic system from the root up. There are too many disastrous problems that can't be fixed with our current incentive structures and modes of social organization.

What exactly it should look like, I don't know. We have a great many ideas on how to do, informed with historical experience though, and it's very high time for some radical social experimentation, from market socialism to decentralized planning and much more, and many have promising preliminary results. We have to set up experiments of these ideas of increasing scales and eventually completely change how we organize our society.