contribution economy

The Extraction Ledger

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The Extraction Ledger showing $500B platform profit versus $4.7T societal cost from cognitive externalities

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

The Great Cognitive Divergence: Two Human Species Are Emerging—And Only One Can Survive AI

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Homo Conexus with sustained attention brain vs Homo Fragmentus with fragmented cognition - cognitive speciation illustration

TL;DR — The Speciation in Five Points Humanity is splitting into two cognitive species. Not through genetics, but through attention. Homo Conexus (those who restored cognitive capacity) and Homo Fragmentus (those who didn’t). The split is biological. Measurable in neural plasticity, sustained attention capacity, memory consolidation. Two different brain architectures emerging from same genome. Age … The Great Cognitive Divergence: Two Human Species Are Emerging—And Only One Can Survive AI