Relationship between the categories of “digital” and “commodity” rents

Abstract

The object of research is the relations that develop regarding the raw material rent and the relations regarding the digital rent in this publication. The purpose of the study is to compare the categories of raw material and digital rent in the mining industry. The work was methodologically based on the use of the following methods: analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, and the system approach. It was revealed that mining enterprises in the context of the digital revolution become the owners of two types of rents: raw materials and digital, which means the complication of budgetary relations with the state. To determine the nature of these relations, the need to compare the foundations, nature, and forms of manifestation of raw material and digital rents was shown. Conclusions were drawn in the work. It is determined that the cause of raw material rent is the right of ownership of land, and digital rent is the network effect, that is, the specifics of technology. It is emphasized that there are three subjects in classical rent relations: capitalists, while consumers and producers of digital products are present in digital rent relations. It is shown that the relations that develop regarding the raw material rent have a longer character of action compared to the relations regarding the digital rent. It is substantiated that the relations that develop over the raw material rent are formed only in the sphere of the use of natural resources, while the relations regarding the digital rent exist in any part of the digital economy. It is presented that the origin and movement of raw material rent is weakly related to technological progress, while digital rent has grown directly from the digital revolution. It is revealed that the phenomenon of digital rent is based on a special resource – creative