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		purplecabbage77 on June 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big... Isn't that basically the same thing as just having data collecting companies pay users directly?

saalweachter on June 23, 2020 [–]

Yeah, it would end up being the same paltry payment.

I think the correct use did eventually occur to me: turn it into funding for open source software, that is both free as in freedom and free as in beer.

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