This book makes a plain argument: your data is not incidental to the AI economy. It is an input. It helps train systems, shape products, reduce risk, increase efficiency, and create enormous enterprise value. Yet the people whose lives, behaviors, language, preferences, and patterns make that value possible are rarely recognized, credited, or paid.

I wrote this book to name that imbalance clearly and to push the conversation forward. If data functions like labor, capital, or any other productive input, then it should be measured differently, governed differently, and valued differently.

If you have been following my work on data, value, ownership, AI, and economic justice, this is the book that brings those arguments together in one place.

You can listen now on Spotify. The hard cover comes out on Juneteenth (June 19)

Your data built this economy. It is time to talk about what that is worth.

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