Wow, this is a good futuristic thought. Not waiting for the consuming problem.

I strongly believe that attention economy is temporarily thriving because people are becoming mentally lazy and unable to make good choices due to the distractions from the attention economy. They are unable to filter and discard the adulterated.

I also like the way you put it in text below...

if time put in content creation no longer equals money, then it is necessary to find a way to reduce the global competition for attention while letting content creators earn rewards for their effort. Because society still needs people who produce intellectual value if it doesn’t want to degrade.

That is a brilliant way to present it and another word for it is regulation which today's society doesn't want.

Self governing niche communities may go a long way to check this problem but in the long and eventually short run it may later be viewed as regulatory.

Nice thinking though. I like people who think ahead of time. This is one very big problem that could consume the content industry if not checked on time.

Thanks and keep steeming. I enjoy your great contents. They come from a great mind.