#attentionrents — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #attentionrents, aggregated by home.social.
-
CW: Long thread/23
Amazon's burying of this vital information will be familiar to #DouglasAdams readers, as the "#BewareOfTheLeopard" tactic. It's not even the first time Amazon's deployed it:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/27/beware-of-the-leopard/#relentless
Another group of scholars recently coined a useful term to describe this ripoff: in a paper published last week, @timoreilly, #MarianaMazzucato and #IlanStrauss dubbed the costs of all this complexity #AttentionRents:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/03/subprime-attention-rent-crisis/#euthanize-rentiers
23/