Human attention is finite — roughly 16 waking hours per day. The Village competes for fragments of that attention against Netflix, TikTok, news, work, and everything else. The cascade's multi-platform strategy is an attention-acquisition operation: catch attention on YouTube, deepen it on Substack, convert it on GitLab. Every platform is a different attention-capture mechanism. The Village is not just creating content; it's competing in the global attention marketplace.