The work of reparative economics is to build valuation models that honor what the market cannot quantify.

This means asking radical questions:

• Should ghostwriters receive points on the master?


• Should dancers unionize into IP co-ops?


• Should emerging designers receive royalties when their designs are “referenced” on runways?

These are not hypotheticals.... See more

The only antidote to exploitation is infrastructure.

• Infrastructure of ownership


• Infrastructure of valuation


• Infrastructure of refusal

Moving from labor to leverage requires us to:

• Price work according to legacy, not scarcity


• Build systems that protect IP and authorship


• Say no to deals that romanticize visibility while disguising theft