invisible economy

THE CONTRIBUTION INVISIBILITY CRISIS

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The Contribution Invisibility Crisis infographic showing invisible economy worth 50 trillion dollars annually (caregiving 11T, open source 8T, mentoring 7T, community 6T with zero visibility) versus missing infrastructure layer of Contribution Graph as meaning layer for AI and economy enabling attribution, verification, measurement, portability, and discovery comparable to Federal Reserve and Suez Canal

Why 50 Trillion Dollars of Annual Value Is Invisible — And Why AI Changes Everything — This analysis establishes that 90% of human value creation is structurally invisible: open source development, caregiving, mentoring, community building, knowledge sharing, and creative collaboration generate approximately 50 trillion dollars annually in economic value but remain unrecognized, unmeasured, and unrewarded … THE CONTRIBUTION INVISIBILITY CRISIS