The so-called honorable life of the nobility of old (in comparison to the banal life of modern middle-class) was to a large degree about things like threatening to kill some poor peasant's children in some foreign country to get them to tell where their last sacks of grain are hidden.

Strange world we have created.

Yes, attention is the new land, or oil. I suppose we still have something going for us. The day when we ordinary people have nothing to sell will see the beginning us us being quarantined and prepared for extermination.

There is a point where the cost of us is higher than the benefits of keeping us and then the crush from bottom to top really happens.