[arrosenberg]

Subsidizing products with your attention span is not a natural thing in a capitalist system. What a ridiculous idea. Advertising is a service, it should be paid for with capital, not used as a subsidy or alternate form of payment.

[nkozyra]

> Subsidizing products with your attention span is not a natural thing in a capitalist system

You're looking at the wrong thing as capital and the wrong thing as the service.

The service is customer sourcing and the capital is literally capital.

It is a very natural capitalist creation, self-evidently so.

[arrosenberg]

I don't think I am. Internet users are not being fairly compensated for their data and unless you block the entire Facebook and Instagram namespaces, they track you whether or not you have consented.

The platforms are acting like feudal landlords, not capitalists.

[nkozyra]

First, I think you've simply identified a key feature of capitalism: exploitation of a resource.

Second, the market has spoken. Some of us feel we're being exploited by having our data harvested for the transaction of advertising, but most do not.

[arrosenberg]

So is attention a resource or a capital equivalent? Doesn't seem like you've made up your mind on that.

> Some of us feel we're being exploited by having our data harvested for the transaction of advertising, but most do not.

Since FB and Google have monopolies in ppc marketing, I'm not sure how you'd reach this conclusion. The only way to opt out is to completely block them on your networks, there is no competing option.

[nkozyra]

> So is attention a resource or a capital equivalent? Doesn't seem like you've made up your mind on that.

It's both. Why would you think these are mutually exclusive?