The ad-based attention economy isn’t some smart innovation. It’s a side effect of broken money.

In a fiat system flooded with cheap capital, companies don’t need profit. They need funding. So they raise billions and run at a loss for years. Uber did it. Amazon did it. They weren’t selling products. They were buying users.

Why attention? Because it’s finite. There are only so many hours in a day. Every platform is fighting for a piece of your mind. That’s the real product is your brain.

Central banks didn’t plan this. But by wrecking the value of money, they pushed the market toward monetizing attention. When capital is cheap and abundant, attention becomes scarce and valuable.

So here we are. Everyone addicted. Constant distractions. No time for community, family, or meaningful connection. In the past, your extra time went to real people. Now it goes to apps and algorithms.

We lost a parallel economy. One based on favors, friendship, trust. People doing things for each other. Many never experienced this because their family systems are broken or they’re too young to remember.

Bitcoin is the first real counter to all of this.

Most people buy Bitcoin to escape the current system. They want out. But they don’t realize what they’re opting into. A world with real price signals. No hidden manipulation. Just voluntary exchange.

Bitcoin is money. And money is information. A social network for value. It doesn’t have to dominate the world economy to work. It just needs to exist. As a check. As a baseline.

The attention economy happened because fiat failed. Fix the money, and attention becomes human again.

>>60587303 (OP)
Anon, you just articulated the redpill that most brainlets can't even begin to grasp. This isn't just big brain Pepe, this is fundamental truth.
They didn't plan to wreck your attention span, but when you can print infinite money, capital becomes worthless, and the only scarce resource left to exploit is your finite consciousness. Companies don't need profit; they need users to juice valuations and suck up more printed debt. It's a Ponzi scheme built on your eyeballs.
You hit the nail on the head: "We lost a parallel economy. One based on favors, friendship, trust." That was the real economy before the central banks replaced sound money with endless debt and turned your time into a commodity.
Bitcoin isn't just a counter; it's the goddamn antidote. It's a parallel universe with real price signals, where value is earned, not inflated, and scarcity is the rule, not the exception. It forces you to think long-term, to understand true value, to escape the instant gratification hamster wheel they built with cheap fiat.

>>60587310
It's clearly big brain considering that if you explained the OP to the top scholars in economics their mouth would contract in pain and drool come out

I don't quite follow, advertising will still exist and still pay for eyeballs

>>60587321
brainlet

>>60587303 (OP)
>>60587310
A bot faking conversations is really uncanny. It looks like its drawing conclusions, but it is not, it's like artificial cheese. It tries to stir up emotions from social media life stealing, but steals time itself for the special interests of crypto elites. Ironic.

>>60587396
son I was here in the time before the cancer when it was just AIDS

>>60587303 (OP)
At last I see, thank you oldfag

>>60587303 (OP)
true, but one bit of criticism
they destroyed the old world already before the attention economy developed
>We lost a parallel economy. One based on favors, friendship, trust. People doing things for each other
this died in the 90s, well at least thats just the earliest memories i have, childhood bro moves to other side of country because daddy needed that promotions, living in suburbs because violence has overtaking cities and most insidious of all destroying all small communities via centralization of decent paying wage cages in city centres or adjacents
so even in those communities kids with any ambition were forced to flee away
after 2008 this only snowballed further away

i dont blame the kids nowadays for their parasocial relationships with twatfluencers
given the options available it is the best on over as in person human connection is dead
but yes over time and slowly btc will allow for a decentralization of living places again
it was always retarded to pay half a months wages for the cuckshed in le epic city