We're definitely living in an attention economy. Dissensus is a very pure attention economy.
What's interesting about making cash, direct, without a boss, is you develop this atavistic attachment to money, count it, delight in it, take pride in it. Like rappers holding huge stacks of banknotes to their ear like a telephone, or drug dealers spelling out their names in wads of 50s. It's very different to having some desultory amount simply appear in your bank account for services rendered.
When my firstborn arrived, 19 years ago, I didn't really have enough, in practical terms. Now my daughter has been born I have a bit more than enough, which is much nicer. If we need something we just buy it. There is a certain ease and freedom that comes with being able to do that.
It's very different to having some desultory amount simply appear in your bank account for services rendered.