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It's Not an Attention Economy. It's Attention Stewardship
- Finnucane 6y agoBack in the 1990s people would say things like "it's not about profits, it's about eyeballs", but of course you couldn't pay the rent with eyeballs. Yeah, getting attention is important, but only to the extent that the attention can be translated back into profits for someone else--sales, ad revenues, though votes and donations and getting people into the streets is a return for those seeking political power.