What Is the Presumpte Exchange Rate Between the Attention Economy and the Material Economy?

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i think the distinction in the question is an important one. From day to day i feel like i waffle between different answers to question. There's a bunch of how questions that seems to me that people aren't asking. How do we get or t that people haven't come up with good answers? I just don't believe that the whole phenomenon is just reducible to people out there drifting, it's just not what's happening.

Featuring Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his essay "Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference," an interview first posted in December 2020. This pairs well with last week's Jared Clemons interview on In This House We Believe antiracism. Since 2020, Táíwò has published a book expanding on these ideas: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else). Read Táíwò's essay: thephilosopher1923.org/post/being-in-the-room-privilege-elite-capture-and-epistemic-deference Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Read our newsletter at thedigradio.com