The Attention Economy: How Collapse Became a Business Model

Pt 1: When education, housing, and labour broke, attention became the only asset left.

Welcome to Part I of a 3-part series on the Attention Economy.

I’m going to say something controversial: The Attention Economy has nothing to do with being addicted to our phones.

I’m going to argue something more controversial: It emerged because the foundational inputs of the old economy—education, housing, labour—stopped producing outcomes, and the in…