❝ But what happens in the Industrial Revolution is that human effort gets embedded in a set of institutions — legal institutions, market institutions — that commodify it so that every hour of wage labor is equal to every other hour of wage labor and then sold on a market for a price.
And that’s an enormous transformation in the human experience — a total transformation in all social relations, political relations, economic relations and also, crucially, the subjective experience of being alive in the world.
I think something similar is happening with attention. And it started a while ago — the same way that the industrial revolution actually started earlier than we think. But we’re reaching a crescendo where attention is now this market commodity that’s extracted and sold. ❞
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-chris-hayes.html
Comments
Displaying 0 of 1 comments
Real cobalt
In response to this post@nazgul This is what teachers have noticed for decades and feared. It’s hard to get attention and then focus and hopefully stay long enough and engage relevantly to go all the way to motivation.
Your quote is very understandable in the description of how a critical change in thinking and capitalism developed.
Mentions: @nazgul@infosec.exchange
Likes: 0
Replies: 0
Boosts: 0