- attention is an expensive resource, and mass media such as television were maintained by profitable companies paying for advertising to buy attention, and social networking sites such as Twitter were maintained by a similar model
At this time, people without the usual ability to pay were converted into resources in the form of “more users means easier ad acquisition.”
Therefore, in order to keep users connected, a valuable resource called “attention” was given to users to make them dependent on it.
I wonder if we can describe history from the perspective of the distribution of resources called Attention like
This then leads to [QUADRATIC ATTENTION PURCHASE
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