{"id":88748,"date":"2023-08-02T19:30:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/02\/its-time-to-rethink-digital-ownership\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T19:30:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:30:18","slug":"its-time-to-rethink-digital-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/02\/its-time-to-rethink-digital-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time to Rethink Digital Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Lauren:<\/strong> I do see what you\u2019re saying, and it plays into this rather trippy idea, which is this idea of like, it turns out we own nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Gideon:<\/strong> Mmm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Lauren:<\/strong> And we don\u2019t, we don\u2019t really own anything. Right? I mean, I think that since the existence of physical goods, there have been different ownership models or structures, different forms of bartering, of loans, of rent to own. I think in the post-industrial era, that probably only increased. We\u2019ve always had some form of subscriptions. You know, even if they weren\u2019t digital subscriptions. So I think what you\u2019re, what you\u2019re picking at, is that existential question. Like, what does it really mean to own something?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Gideon:<\/strong> I, no, that I think I\u2019m not, actually. I think I\u2019m just saying that ownership is always a construct, and, you know, owning a house, owning the land that it\u2019s on, owning any object is a construct. Like money as a construct or corporations as a construct. All of these things are constructs that we\u2019ve built, we\u2019ve created, to make society work, and we can choose to change them. And maybe what I\u2019m saying is it\u2019s not obvious to me that it\u2019s wrong to change the construct of ownership. I think where I come down on the same side as you is that the common thread in all of this is that corporations are getting more power over individuals, and they\u2019re getting to choose for us what can we have, what can we see, what can we change, how our experience is shaped. And that feels uncomfortable. It\u2019s, it\u2019s the power and control part. It\u2019s less even about the concept of ownership itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Lauren:<\/strong> Right. It\u2019s that the relationship has changed between \u201cI give you this money for this good, and this is the exchange that\u2019s supposed to happen, and this is the result that is supposed to come from that.\u201d And all of a sudden it\u2019s like, the merchant that you\u2019ve paid is saying, \u201cActually, the terms have changed.\u201d Yeah. And so within that construct, an imbalance has been introduced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Gideon:<\/strong> Right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Lauren:<\/strong> So the internet has created, you know, this incredible era of production and distribution and dissemination of goods and digital goods. But now the consumer is at the receiving end of it, saying, \u201cWell, hey, like, what just happened to that thing I paid for?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Gideon:<\/strong> Right. It\u2019s such an interesting example of the flip sides of technology, right? The internet has this so-called democratizing effect in many ways and gives people access to things they didn\u2019t have before, and tools they didn\u2019t have before. And at the same time, it\u2019s also a means of taking away ownership, and ownership as a form of independence. I think maybe for me, that\u2019s the, the crucial thing here is that it\u2019s about autonomy and the right to make choices for yourself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Lauren:<\/strong> Hmm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Gideon:<\/strong> One of the things that\u2019s interesting about this topic is, what are the politics of right to repair and of digital ownership? Because I think of them as essentially progressive issues in this country, but there\u2019s no reason why they should be. Right? Ownership\u2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren: I do see what you\u2019re saying, and it plays into this rather trippy idea, which is this idea of like, it turns out we own nothing. Gideon: Mmm. Lauren: And we don\u2019t, we don\u2019t really own anything. Right? 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