What are behavioural futures markets?
Definitions: Behavioural futures markets are a new kind of marketplace for behavioral predictions. Behavioral surplus is raw data that is scraped or extracted from human experience and fed into various manufacturing processes.
Over the past two decades, an entirely new economic model has emerged, seemingly right under our noses. Whereas the internet and digital technology once promised to liberate humanity through determination and shared connections now have been turned into tools of behavioral manipulation and exploitation. Which includes your small business Data, like client lists and sexual behavior.
But what does this mean for sex workers?
When you use any digital platform without paying (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), it's not free. Platforms monetize and sell your interests, opinions, cultural values, and personal identity. how you feel about sex work. In this case—whoever can afford to will control public opinion. Platforms create models about your body, your history, your culture, and your identity. Anybody can run advocacy groups for their best interest. For example, they (GOP) might tell you racial segregation is a good thing. Or that workers should not own their labor. That women shouldn't want or deserve to decide what clients they should have. Massachusetts laws should be decided by Massachusetts residents, not overseas billionaires, gangsters, or space aliens, but by the people of Massachusetts. Globalization plays a big role here.
What does this all mean to the sex workers who lost money and power for self-determination?
The Predatory capitalists and private monopolies are hidden in plain sight, taking over women's and families’ economic resources.
A private monopoly is when a company, person, or state has complete control over something, making it difficult or impossible for others to compete. Private monopolies can be created when a company tries to force out competitors or prevent new ones from entering the market to dominate it. The goal of a private monopoly is to maximize profits by eliminating competition and lowering output. When a company has complete control over a product or service, it can charge any price it wants, and consumers who can't or won't pay that price cannot get the product—taking from Women, children, and families, poor and working-class people
Media and entertainment have become cultural weapons, creating informational asymmetry. They attack and redirect our shared history, with the aim of extracting as much capital as possible.