Convinced of the transformative potential of their technology, firms capture the commons, disregard the legal rules that structure industries, automate workers away, and commodify everything in their path. Google digitizes entire libraries or sends a fleet of cars out to drive and photograph every road in the world; Uber upends and reconstructs the market for taxis; OpenAI ingests the whole of the web; every major organization tries to collect as much information as it can about any- one who wanders into view, the better to transform them into bundles of comparable, valuable data. During this expansionary phase, the best strategy is simply to see how much you can get away with.

— The Ordinal Society by Kieran Healy, Marion Fourcade (9%)