Hear Me Out: What If We Got Paid For the Data We Share? It’s not like corporations aren’t already extracting it for free. Take job applications, for example. Resumes are incredibly data-rich, companies can store that information in massive databases that become valuable over time. The current system has normalized and incentivized this kind of large-scale data collection. So why shouldn’t the data we share have an actual price attached to it? It clearly has economic value.

The question of whether AI will replace jobs or help us become more efficient in our roles is a relevant concern today. However, one...