Does anyone know of any good essays to read on the subject?

It seems to me like there are a lot of people who think the internet and all of the hardware that it necessitates simply just exists, and end up in a kind of technoutopian position without realizing that the imperial core countries' access to the internet is predicated on exploitation on a global scale.

I was reading "The Interface Effect" by Alex Galloway, and in the final essay he completely flattens the relationship between him (a tenured prof in NYC) with a gold miner in the global south by positing that "we are all gold miners" as though the labor of extracting gold is the same as the "labor" of browsing amazon. To be fair, he was writing about primarily about WOW gold IIRC, not real gold, but again, how is westerners paying a pittance to a Chinese teenager mining WOW gold the same as casually browsing the internet. (This was published in 2008)

I've seen this a lot over the last few years too, positioning the primarily useless data that is harvested from westerners browsing the internet as the same type of exploitation of someone who actually produces the hardware it all relies on. It all coalesces in the terribly liberal idea that we should be paid for the data we create, as though information on what treats I shove into my mouth are actually valuable in any real sense. This isn't to say that the mass data we all produce using the internet wouldn't be tremendously valuable for a planned economy, but that it is itself a commodity we should be paid for. I just can't get over the inane idea that westerners deserve more of the surplus value created by the miner and factory worker who actually produce the hardware. Wouldn't it make more sense to demand that the chain of labor that produces the hardware should receive the majority of this surplus value, not a dude in NYC buying cheap commodities on Amazon?

Really any essays that negotiate the "liberatory" potential of the internet with a materialist account of its creation would be of interest.

Edit: to throw my net even wider, I would appreciate any essays/books on commodity fetishism in general