RE: Age Of Abundance: The War That Is Brewing
Hence, we are moving towards the attention economy.
Attention is the new currency, and everyone has their share to give and earn. It is our most valuable asset that we can give, and steemit and other blockchain based technologies are the first to show us that our attention is valuable.
Companies like FB made billions by selling OUR attention to whoever the highest bidder was. Youtube used OUR content to profit from the attention that WE should have profited from.
Now instead of giving away our attention, we can pay it to people and projects that we support and want to see thrive. Instead of giving away our value we get paid what we are worth to the community of people who are paying attention to us.
Steemit is awesome, tell your friends and follow up with them, getting in early will be a strong advantage to do what you want to do with your life sooner
Before those entities, the broadcasters knew the value of it. Back in the day, before remote controls, we actually watched the commercials. Broadcasters have been paid a pretty penny for out attention. Look at what a Superbowl ad goes for....the attention of 80 million people is worth a pretty penny for 30 seconds.
Now we are in the pay us economy...they want our attention, it has a price for advertisers. No longer are we obligated to let someone else profit off it.