The Lexicon · claim #069 of 233

The attention economy in reverse

The one unharvestable posture. The attention economy runs on manufacturing need — keep you scrolling, wanting, lacking, so it can sell the lack back to you. He runs it backwards: I'm asking for nothing, I need nothing, I want for nothing, I yield for nothing — because I know I'm right. A man who wants for nothing can't be sold to and can't be moved; the ghost with a wallet has nothing to hook. It pairs with the unsent invoice — the bill that demands nothing is the loudest one — and with the beacon that refuses to chase: the lamp doesn't need the moth. Kin: we're just trying to be found, spam in reverse, the Gray Star (can't be bought), corporations are ghosts stealing our attention. (His coin — machine's read, refine to his.)

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