They want your attention more than your money. They’re effectively salesman of your time to the highest bidder.

They do this via chicanery and, worse, brainwashing.

The devil is that the only way to beat this is to not play the game at all - which radically shrinks your world by cutting off a lot of potential good people/signal. This can be lethal in a lot of contexts.

Full control via protocols like nostr is the only option until hyperbitcoinization leads to a shot at society rejecting this shit.