The Attention Economy is Racing Toward a Recession

I’m way behind the founders of SubStack, but I’m apparently way ahead of the throngs of social believers and influencers whose every thought is to garner attention and nothing more.

Based purely on eyeballs and attention, the current economic model is unsustainable and generally not optimized for anyone’s benefit except advertisers and any company that does their bidding [literally]. The SubStack founders know this.

And that realization has triggered an intellectual response that may take time to unfurl, but very soon, it will reach…