Demanding that if we must participate in capitalist economies, we do so with compensation, dignity, and collective power not as infinite sources of free labor for those already positioned to accumulate.

Your presence performs their equity commitments while they avoid systemic change exactly what happens in the conference industrial complex.

The market stops being voluntary and starts looking like economic servitude when your choices are participate in extraction economies or have no livelihood at all. Work for free or be excluded from the networks that control access to paid work. Accept tokenism or lose the proximity to resources your communities need.