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• digital_minimalism
• global_infrastructure created: ‘2026-05-04 14:40’ last_modified: ‘2026-05-04 14:40:00’ status: evergreen confidence: fact

The attention economy monetizes distraction

In platforms where access is free, human focus is the actual product being aggregated and sold to advertisers. Acknowledging this global business model is similar to realizing The environmental devastation of animal agriculture threatens global stability.¹

Footnotes

1. Wu, T. (2016). The Attention Merchants. ↩