Current attention-organizing logics serve financial interests and are self-destructive.

Evidence

The logics that today determine the interpretation and organization of our collective, joint and individual attention are at best unsatisfactory, and at worst self-destructive. It is therefore of the greatest importance that they be reworked so that we might reorient our attention towards commonly held and articulated priorities rather than see it diverted to the profit of particular financial interests. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 501

Categorization

• XREF: Direct bridge to attention economy critiques and platform capitalism analysis. — connects to: Rational individual self-interest can cumulatively destroy shared collective resources.; Attention economy pits financialization against alternative forms of value; Unchecked self-regulating markets are destructive and require countervailing laws. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 124 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Rational individual self-interest can cumulatively destroy shared collective resources. #expands (0.85)
• Rational self-interest yields collectively disastrous resource depletion #expands (0.85) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2498
• Individual rational self-interest can systematically produce collective disaster. #expands (0.85)
• Financial speculation externalizes its risks and costs onto the powerless #expands (0.80) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 332
• Rationality of the actor and of the action can diverge, making reason self-destructive. #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 423
• Attention operates as a form of capital that accrues interest and concentrates inequality. #expands (0.80) — Michael H. Goldhaber, The Attention Economy and the Net, 16
• Financial self-interest is framed as advancing the common good through free-market logic #corroborates (0.80)
• Unchecked self-regulating markets are destructive and require countervailing laws. #qualifies (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 124
• Attention economy pits financialization against alternative forms of value #complicates (0.75)