You Can't Put a Price on Nature

https://itsfreezinginla.com/articles/but-at-what-cost

Adrienne Buller asks if capitalistic financing can every truly account for all the dynamism and complexity of the natural world.

“Just as men are converted into commodities, so every aspect of nature is converted into a commodity, a resource to be manufactured and merchandised wantonly. … The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.”
― Murray Bookchin

#commoditization #naturalworld #plunder #valueassessment #myopicview #disenfranchised

Nothing in the universe is as diverse as a byte of data, which can carry information ranging from baby pictures to a digitally signed million-dollar bank transfer. It's like saying that Shakespeare's works are a commodity because he uses the alphabet just like everybody else.
-- Don Tapscott

⬆ #Quotes #DonTapscott #Commoditization #Data #Technology

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

[My Days with Sound] on the role of social media algorithms and AI in the commoditization of art
https://youtu.be/kHe4wwF9O6Q
#Algorithm #Commoditization #art #Music #SocialMedia #MobileMedia #Smartphones #AI #ArtificialIntelligence