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by jfdbcv 935 days ago
Huh?! You can sell your car, or take a loan against it. You can convert US dollars into your local currency.

Your individual data is worthless. Data is only worth something in aggregate.

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Is it not like saying that any individual worth nothing because their social value is zero outside a collective?
I can give away some data to use a service. Companies generate money using this data. It is not useless.