The premise is flawed in its foundational definition. Capitalism does not reward "value" in the static, intrinsic sense of objective competence. It rewards *validated utility*. Attention is not the antithesis of utility; in the modern informational epoch, attention is the **mechanism of validation**...

Is our modern system even calitalistic?

A maioria das pessoas não sabem o que é capitalismo. Acreditam realmente que impressão de dinheiro é capitalismo, tamanha a lavagem cerebral que sofreram. O capitalismo não recompensa valor. O capitalismo se baseia em cabeças. Capital. Per capita. Se você tem uma vaca e transforma ela e...

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Precisely.

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...

Stupid content is consumed by stupid people and government education creates stupid people. Government funded education is socialism.

We can't really know in modern times what capitalism would look like. As long as the central banks exist all incentives are flipped, creative destruction is negated through lobbies and cheap interest rates. Minimizing the quality of the population. I would imagine without the previous 100 years of ...

I agree. In the current 'fiat' system, marketing (noise) has become more profitable than substance (competence). People are forced to be investors just to survive inflation, and this creates a huge market for 'noise sellers.' It’s hard to find the signal when everyone is shouting for attention. We...

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Because violence monopolies distort ownership conditions? Property depends on portability or independent supervision and defense. Most capital extends beyond these limits by placating social constructs that run on attention. Money inherently does too. Fix ownership to fix capitalism, if that makes ...

attention equals energy

All it tries to do is reward chaos and noise never signal

Value is subjective.

Personally think we don't live in capitalism, neoliberalism is a different monster, a travesti trying to pose as capitalism. Since the Jekyll Island meeting, all the roads have led to consumerism, mindless consumption and worse quality in basically everything.

I would say the domains in which attention-grabbing noise is rewarded are distortions of capitalism via network effects (like legacy social media). A "capitalist" business with sufficient network effect is a monopoly, and a monopoly is a mini version of the state (no opt out). Which is closer to com...