On: The currency of the new economy won't be money, bu...

[jonny_eh]

The right kind of attention can lift people out of homelessness, e.g. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/04/23/ted-golden-vo...

One could argue homelessness remains a growing problem because it does not receive sufficient attention.

[cwmoore → jonny_eh]

Isn't that datapoint an exception that proves the rule? I note that a homeless person receiving acclaim and the issue of homelessness receiving attention are orders apart.

[lmm → cwmoore]

Homeless people are, generally, very starved for attention. Many will value a human conversation more than money.

[wslh → jonny_eh]

Seems like you can replace attention with zillions of placeholders like: the same right kind of intelligence can lift people out of homelessness.