Every era has its scarcity. Ours is attention. The systems competing for it are the most sophisticated persuasion machines ever built, refined by feedback loops measured in milliseconds. They are not evil. They are simply optimising for the metric they were given.
The remedy is not moral, but architectural. Build the conditions in which deep attention can return: longer blocks of unscheduled time, fewer ambient interruptions, environments that reward depth over reaction. The capacity to think clearly in the open is, increasingly, a competitive advantage and a quiet form of freedom.