From first principles: any person’s most limited resource in life is their attention, and YouTube should be grateful that anyone is willing to dedicate any atte

From first principles: any person’s most limited resource in life is their attention, and YouTube should be grateful that anyone is willing to dedicate any attention to videos on their service at all considering the power it grants The Algorithm to shape our ways of thinking about ourselves, each other, and the world we inhabit. Ads, paywalls, and all other forms of access-control are a way of obscuring the relationship between programming and programmed, inverting it to me about me wanting to access them instead of them wanting to access me. It’s like that Cartmanland episode of South Park where telling people they can’t come to the park makes everyone want to come to the park. This is not unique to YouTube or other streaming services, just the newest and most effective in the long line of newspapers, Hollywood, radio, TV, etc, and why all of those previous forms of media are as well-aligned with the US Government as is “““Big Tech”””. Ever gone for a Cultural Victory in Civ?