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The Ezra Klein Show · November 20, 2023 · 70m

Your Attention Didn't Collapse — It Was Stolen

The Ezra Klein Show

Klein examines the attention crisis — how technology companies have systematically captured and degraded human attention for profit, and what individuals and societies can do about it.

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The hedonic treadmill of digital stimulation — each scroll raises the threshold for the next
Klein connects the attention crisis to the hedonic treadmill: each dopamine hit from a notification, like, or new content raises the threshold for stimulation, requiring more intense content to achieve the same engagement.
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Highlights

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Attention is a finite resource that is being extracted by companies the way oil is extracted from the ground
Klein frames attention as a natural resource: finite, valuable, and being strip-mined by technology companies who profit from capturing and selling it to advertisers.
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