If capitalism rewards “value,”
why does it reward attention-grabbing noise more than competence?
Because that "value" is determined by consumers, and our consumer culture is completely fucked. Reduced to dopamine driven clicks through years of hedonistic glut, spurred on by soulless, money extracting algorithms.
It is we consumers that continue to fail at measuring value in anything other than dopamine hits and (fake) money, and in that way validating attention-gabbing noise as valuable.
Businesses do not have or need any moral compass. That is for consumers to enforce on them, under threat of voting with their wallets.
Consumers are supposed to be the balancing power in the producer-consumer economy. What we have now is a producer-state economy where consumers are mere, impotent spectators.
It is we consumers that continue to fail at measuring value in anything other than dopamine hits and (fake) money, and in that way validating attention-gabbing noise as valuable.
Businesses do not have or need any moral compass. That is for consumers to enforce on them, under threat of voting with their wallets.
Consumers are supposed to be the balancing power in the producer-consumer economy. What we have now is a producer-state economy where consumers are mere, impotent spectators.
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