The royalties for "being oneself"
 

Kim Stanley Robinson envisions a future for social media / information security where you could agree "to sell your data or not to data-mining operations" and which would force these operations "to offer people micro-payments for their data, mainly health information, consumption patterns, and finance"
 
"The royalties for being oneself in the world machine were not insignificant, a kind of lifetime annuity, small but useful"
 
later in the book (379) this becomes the basis for a form of "post-capitalist crowd banking"

> from Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future (2020)created May

> tagged with #social_media, #science_fiction, #optimistic, #future, #information_age, #information

> created May 28, 2025 at 9:58:46 AM


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