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Value Capture!
This pre-print article explores the concept of value capture, where individuals adopt externally-sourced values without adapting them to their own context.
philpapers.orgAlgorithmic realism | Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
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Greater scale should mean greater good as valued by an increasingly wider set of people: the creation of positive externalities.
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
These reforms generally come in two varieties. Propertarian reforms diagnose the source of datafication’s injustice in the absence of formal property (or alternatively, labor) rights regulating the process of production.
Salomé Viljoen • Data as Property? | Phenomenal World
But in practice, little space has been made for different values to be discussed or enacted. Which is why, in the absence of ways to enact our shared values, we default to the lowest common denominator: profit.
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
Without building durable and shared sites of worth outside of market relations, we are stuck with the valuation of worth as productivity.
Amelia Horgan • Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)
It is part of a larger set of processes in which everything once considered personal has to be recreated and deployed in the service of adding dollar or prestige value to one’s electronic identities.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
What was once an impersonal mechanism that compelled people to look at everything around them as a potential source of profit has come to be considered the only objective measure of the health of the human community itself.