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I would also add that human attention is inherently scarce. Advertising businesses like google and facebook leverage this fact.

Google provides unlimited searches to users without charge. On the other side, google provides human attention to advertisers, and charges for it due to the scarce nature of attention. Sort of like a marketplace business.



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