The problem is information hoarding. If you imagine going to a pub meeting people regularly, and the pub records everything you ever said, and then one day the

The problem is information hoarding. If you imagine going to a pub meeting people regularly, and the pub records everything you ever said, and then one day the pub owner says they're going to charge you for the recordings, you'd laugh. Nobody would pay. If they tried to charge you to enter, you'd go to another pub, you wouldn't lament the "loss of your culture". In fact, people don't record what they talk about in pubs because the point is the chat experience not the records of previous chats. Data isn't oil and it isn't quite sewage, it's more like quicksand or thickets of weeds growing and tangling around your feet. Like minimalists say 'stuff is bad' but stuff is useful, it's having stuff hidden in cupboards and drawers and a garage full of stuff and wanting a bigger house to hold more stuff and most of the stuff going unused because you can't bring yourself to let go of it, and companies advertising that more and newer stuff will make your life better and solve your problems, which is the biggest problem with stuff. Sufficientism might be a more appropriate name - enough stuff to make your life better and no more. Enough chat to make your life better isn't "all of it kept forever".