🗨️ getting attention is the only job

As The New York Times’ Jon Caramanica said recently (on a livestream, it should be noted), “The gap between ‘I’m a comedian,’ ‘I’m a content creator,’ ‘I’m a musician’ — we used to think of those as three different jobs. They’re not three different jobs anymore. It’s basically just one job, which is getting attention. That’s the main job.”

The only taboo left is copyright infringement - Garbage Day

But above all that, what is really reminds me of is time. Life’s true currency, the one you can’t get back. But just like with what Crusty says about money, when it comes to time, there is also a corrupt, permanently greedy corporate class who want to squeeze you for all the time you’ve got. And every minute that they extract from you, that they steal from you, is a minute that you don’t get back.

It’s a minute where you are converted into both a consumer and a product. Your mind is reduced to passivity and your existence is reduced to a commodity called data. This process of harvesting the time of the many to convert to capital for the few has a name we all know – it’s often just called “The Attention Economy”.

But I’ve got to say, that name has always felt like a euphemism. I mean, what is attention? When somebody hijacks your attention or steals your attention, it’s not like they leave another part of you to go do something else. They’re taking all of you. That’s all your time. That is your life. This is the life economy that we’re talking about here.

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