Abstract:The thriving network economy has brought huge amount of digital resources, which come from people's shared digital labor. These digital resources can bring huge profits to their owners and form a new form of capital—digital capital. Digital capital is the third form of capital following industrial capital and financial capital. Karl Marx believes that the essence of capital is to make profits, and the process of making profits entails the exploitation of regular laborers. This is also the case with digital capital. In the digital economy, the monopoly of digital resources by some companies or individuals may lead to new forms of exploitation, while regular laborers do not share the benefits brought by digital resources in this process. To tackle inequality in digital production and ensure justice for all in benefit distribution, we should ensure opportunity for all people to share digital benefit. On the one hand, digital resources should be available to the public free of charge as long as they do not involve personal privacy or cause security concern. On the other hand, the enterprises profiting from digital resources should proactively share the dividends brought by digital resources in the form of donations, or promote public welfare with their profits.
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