RESOURCE EXTRACTION
SYSTEM 03 Economic Control
DOMAIN THE CONDITIONING
DEFINITION:
The process of acquiring, harvesting, collecting, or converting natural, human, informational, or economic resources into usable value.
FUNCTION:
Transfers resources from their source into systems of production, consumption, accumulation, and exchange.
EXAMPLES:
- Mining minerals
- Oil drilling
- Logging forests
- Labor exploitation
- Data collection
- Agricultural harvesting
- Attention monetization
RELATED SYMBOLS:
Disparity Of Wealth
Financial Pressure
Market Dependence
Value Assignment
Wealth Accumulation
Attention
Data Profile
Monetization
RELATED SYSTEMS:
03 Economic Control
20 Algorithmic Governance
24 Surveillance Society
25 Attention Economy
31 Reality Markets
NOTES:
Resource extraction extends beyond physical materials. Modern systems extract value from labor, information, behavior, attention, and social participation. The form of extraction changes, but the movement of value from source to system remains consistent.
CONTROL TEXT OBSERVATION:
Every system depends on inputs. Resource extraction determines what enters the system, who benefits from it, and how value is distributed after extraction.