Four Dimensions

The Commodification of Experience

June 2025•13 min read
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Personal moments are the new raw material. This is how our lives became inventory.
Digital CultureAttention EconomyPersonal BrandingSocial MediaAuthenticity
Core Thesis
When human experience is priced by its algorithmic performance, we accept a civilization where intimacy is taxed. The antidote is to rebuild commons, rituals, and cooperative infrastructures that reward creation over exhibition.
Summary
Experience now has an exchange rate. We frame, export, and circulate it so algorithms can assign it to markets. The price we pay is an attention tithe: permanent partial focus, permanent anticipation of how a moment will look when released into the economy of takes.
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