ATTENTION IS _THE_ SCARCE RESOURCE
There are, currently, a lot of high-profile people doing crazy stuff in public. Saying outrageous things, in interviews or on social media, that we would not have expected high-profile people to do a few decades ago (at least not in public). Any explanation of this, needs to not only explain why it happens so often now, but also why it hasn't always been happening. So, "people are crazy", "people are stupid", and that sort of thing, do not work as explanations, because that has always been true. Why in public now? Why the most high-profile people?
It could be asserted that it always was happening, but we didn't formerly see it happening. Granted, but it amounts to the same question, since a lot of the outrageous stuff being said, is being said to reporters in press conferences or shareholders on videoconference meetings or otherwise in a manner intended for public consumption. Multiple corporate CEOs giving videoconferences with no pants on is not a thing which happened in prior times, and not just because of the videoconferencing part.
The reason why, is in the title of this blog post: your attention, is the scarce resource here. Not money, oil, copper, land, or any of the other things which have formerly been the scarcest resource. The reason is that:
