I would like to control my data, and if I was willing, release it for a “labor” fee.
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Centroids Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 11:46 AM To: Centroids Discussions <[email protected]>; Billy Rojas <[email protected]> Subject: [RC] Towards a “Data Labor” Movement? Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving Beyond 'Free' by Imanol Arrieta Ibarra, Leonard Goff, Diego Jiménez Hernández, Jaron Lanier, E. Glen Weyl :: SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3093683 (via Instapaper <http://www.instapaper.com/> ) _____ Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving Beyond 'Free' American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 1, No. 1, Forthcoming 5 Pages Posted: 29 Dec 2017 Imanol Arrieta Ibarra <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2872427> Stanford University Leonard Goff <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2872425> Columbia University Diego Jiménez Hernández <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2872428> Stanford University Jaron Lanier <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2872422> Microsoft Corporation E. Glen Weyl <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1186331> Microsoft Research New York City; RadicalxChange Foundation; Princeton University - Julis Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance Date Written: December 27, 2017 Abstract In the digital economy, user data is typically treated as capital created by corporations observing willing individuals. This neglects users' role in creating data, reducing incentives for users, distributing the gains from the data economy unequally and stoking fears of automation. Instead treating data (at least partially) as labor could help resolve these issues and restore a functioning market for user contributions, but may run against the near-term interests of dominant data monopsonists who have benefited from data being treated as 'free'. Countervailing power, in the form of competition, a data labor movement and/or thoughtful regulation could help restore balance. Keywords: data economy, big data, data as labor, artificial intelligence, machine learning, monopsony power JEL Classification: C55, D40, J42, L96 Suggested Citation: Arrieta Ibarra, Imanol and Goff, Leonard and Jiménez Hernández, Diego and Lanier, Jaron and Weyl, Eric Glen, Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving Beyond 'Free' (December 27, 2017). American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 1, No. 1, Forthcoming. 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