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title: Time and Attention as Currency
date: 2022-12-19
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author: Cincinnatus
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## How the attention economy is ruining us

We need to return back to pseudonimity and anonymity as the basis for the marketplace EXCEPT when an actual trade of value for value is agreed by all parties.

https://twitter.com/dergigi/status/1604785991608172544?s=20&t=ZOA98-7Et7TPpZYI8AHACg

This is fundamentally impossible without "hard money" and its side-kick "hard digital decentralization".