The attention economy functions as an industrial farm of vegetative users

Evidence

Simply put, most of the internet runs on a business model that is bad for us. And everyone basically knows this. We call it the “attention economy,” but in practice it is a globe-spanning industrial farm that extracts money from a billion vegetative humans suspended in an infinite web, eyes glazed. Remember when Neo wakes up in the embryonic slime-pod in The Matrix? Like that. Only before he wakes up. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 83

Categorization

• CANDY: The Matrix slime-pod simile is a vivid, shareable image of digital extraction.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 83
• XREF: connects to: Attention serves communal needs rather than minority growth interests — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 548; Attentional experiences rest on an exploited global material labor chain — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 559; Attention ecology is a surprisingly underinvestigated field needing new vocabulary — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 19 (+7 more)