Attention can be quantitatively measured and thereby bought and sold.

Evidence

For all its complexity, the trillion-dollar human fracking industry is the extreme application of a simple idea: that attention can be quantitatively measured (and, by extension, bought and sold). — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 121

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pins down the core definitional claim of ‘human fracking’ — that it rests on quantifiability of attention.
• XREF: connects to: Attention also varies in quality and mode, not just quantity — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 123; Attention itself constitutes productive labor that generates value — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 148; Attention only becomes convertible capital through homogenizing measurement devices — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 165 (+12 more)