They dont want to figure it out cuz they want to be them. Or in other words they want attention too. Which is why telling them don't participate in the attent

They dont want to figure it out cuz they want to be them. Or in other words they want attention too. Which is why telling them don't participate in the attention economy doesn't work very well. Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class written hundred years ago makes the distinction between Leisure|Consumption and CONSPICUOUS Leisure|Consumption. It looks like a total waste, what say the royal family or the high clergy, is upto day in day out. They are constantly signalling to the rest of the chimp troupe - look at my house - look at my clothes - look at my chariot - look at my hobbies etc etc The value of all that lies in - You want to be like me/us then do what we tell you to do. Usually dirty work. This looks like it doesn't have value but it does, especially when problems groups face, get complex and keeping the group together/working together gets harder and harder. Non attention seekers dont have a great track record of solving such problems. The attention seekers have a better shot cuz a large chunk of chimps in the troupe want to raise their own status. To complicate matters Attention Economy quantified Status (thro the Like/Follower count) And minimized the Cost of Broadcasting Status Signals to 0. These things happened by accident as networks grew and info exploded. The techbros reacted by builing tools to control the explosion (collecting personal data by giving freebies ie reducing cost to broadcast to 0, counting Likes and Clicks to rank and filter info). So waste (unnecessary status signalling when there is no real complex prob being solved by the kardashians) in such a badly system keeps rising. Veblen said a 100 years ago an ideal economist is someone who is looking for a way to minimize this waste in the system.