The Rage Economy: How Anger Became the Most Valuable Resource on the Internet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798195260453)

You are not angry by accident.

The exhaustion you feel after an hour on your phone, the constant low-grade anxiety, the sense that you are more reactive and less patient than you used to be - none of this is a personal failing. It is the predictable output of a system designed to extract emotional energy from you and return very little in exchange.

Anger is no longer a side effect of the internet. It is the product.

The Rage Economy is a field manual for understanding how modern platforms convert your attention into engagement, your engagement into profit, and your emotional life into a renewable resource. It maps the mechanisms - algorithmic, psychological, social - that keep you scrolling long after you wanted to stop. Then it gives you the tools to operate differently.

You will learn how to recognise manufactured outrage in real time, how to build an emotional firewall against extraction, and how to reclaim agency in an environment built to remove it.

This is not a book that will make you feel righteous. It will not validate your angriest moments or hand you a clear villain to blame. What it offers is something rarer: a calm, practical guide to thinking clearly inside a system that profits from confusion.

Inside this book:

▸ Why anger spreads faster than truth - and what that does to your mind

▸ How to recognise tribal capture, status anxiety, and the slot-machine feed

▸ A five-layer Emotional Firewall protocol you can run in under sixty seconds

▸ How to reclaim attention, agency, and clarity in a hostile information environment

Author: Matt Sterling
ISBN-13: 9798195260453
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2026
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d