Value is still being... «Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age»

Value is still being extracted from the work -- it's just being taken from a different place in the production cycle, and not passed down to the creators themselves. Those of us who do create for a livingare told the free labor will garner us exposure necessary to get paid for something else we do -- like talks or television. Of course, the people hiring us to do those apprearances believe they should get us for free as well, because our live performances will help publicize our books and movies. And so it goes, all the while being characterized as the new openness of a digital society, when in fact we are less open to one another than we are to exploitation from the usual suspects at the top of the traditional food chain.