The Extraction Ledger
How Platforms Book Profit While Offloading Trillions in Cognitive Liability to Everyone Else TL;DR — The World’s Largest Unbooked Liability For every dollar of advertising revenue generated by engagement-optimizing platforms, the economic system absorbs between $8 and $15 in downstream costs. These costs—measured in insurance claims, healthcare utilization, lost productivity, and institutional failures—are never recorded … The Extraction Ledger