Attention-extraction rose from side hustle to center of plutocratic profit

Evidence

Something similar went down across the last half century in the advertising industry. The heyday of Mad Men–style Madison Avenue swagger was indeed back in the 1960s. The rise of the tech and financial sectors in the ’70s and ’80s relegated the world of advertising to a rather unglamorous side hustle in the global money vortex. Human fracking has changed that tune, catapulting the project of extracting money-value from human eyeballs to the veritable forefront of global plutocratic endeavor. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 98

Categorization

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