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Re:How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by JasonFruit on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:18AM (#19807029)
I'm not convinced the global economy is that bound to social media use. Why do you say?
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Re:How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by addicted on Thursday May 02, 2019 @09:41AM (#19807780)
And I’d bet if that did happen, which I think is extremely unlikely, the global economy would benefit greatly by people finding new uses for their time (not all of which would be productive), as opposed to funneling data and ad money towards Facebook.
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