Ever wonder why we call it “paying” attention? It's because our attention takes energy and has value. Attention we spend glancing at an ad is time we could have spent attending to something else, something we choose. We can never recover this lost time. Which is why ads that are engineered to capture our attention without our deliberate intent are immoral; quite literally they steal our lives away from us a few moments at a time so that someone else can make money.
Ever wonder why we call it “paying” attention? It's because our attention takes energy and has value.
Attention we spend glancing at an ad is time we could have spent attending to something else, something we choose.
We can never recover this lost time. Which is why ads that are engineered to capture our attention without our deliberate intent are immoral; quite literally they steal our lives away from us a few moments at a time so that someone else can make money.