The Limits of Attention Economy

In a more egalitarian society, there is what's called the attention economy or the positional economy. And this is actually sometimes a little bit harder to deal with because while we can do grow enough food to feed everybody and we could have enough teachers to educate everybody, we can't really have more awards or we can't have more attention. So those ideas, yeah, it happens to answer your question. It happens at a few layers in society. But again, I want us to think about a world where if you have a little bit more than someone, it's not so bad.

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