> attention is the most valuable currency

"Grass-fed body mass is the most valuable currency", said the rancher to the fenced-in herd of beef-cows.

Nah, that's what someone with power says in order to distract you from realizing you don't actually have nearly as much. Attention has never been a good substitute for power, or thousands of years of human civilization would be very very different.

There's a fine line between stoicism and self-defeating tactics.