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title: 2 Metadata surrogates have more value than what they are surrogates of in a capitalist society
date: 2022-05-25
icon: 🔖
category: Zettelkasten
tags:
categories: Zettelkasten
lastMod: 2022-06-21
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In a capitalist society, governments and corporations construct surrogates of us from the data they mine. And in a capitalist society, that data surrogate is more "real" and has more value than we do because it makes them money.


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- Therefore, it is not always a bad thing to have silences in our collections. Sometimes, those silences are necessary.
 See [1a Archival silence is a good thing when its purpose is protection]({{< ref "1a Archival silence is a good thing when its purpose is protection" >}})