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The Gigantic Economy Needs a New Way to Measure Value

Originally published on on Buy Me a Coffee — original post. Last updated 2026-09-12.

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The Gigantic Economy Needs a New Way to Measure Value

We are entering a gigantic world.

A world where intelligent systems move goods, drive vehicles, analyze markets, and coordinate services across entire cities and continents. A world where self-driving cars transport people to businesses, where AI agents negotiate services, and where machines help run the infrastructure of daily life.

But the economic systems we are using today were not designed for a world like this.

In the current economy, a transaction happens and then it ends. A purchase is made. A service is delivered. Companies close the books, calculate their costs, subtract their investments, and hope that what remains is profit.

This model worked when the economy was smaller, slower, and built around isolated transactions.

But it will not work in a gigantic interconnected world.

Because in that world, value does not appear in a single moment. Value is created across time, across systems, and across networks of participation.

A self-driving vehicle transporting someone to a restaurant is not just a ride. It is part of a chain of economic events — transportation, retail, service, energy, data, and advertising — all connected to the same ecosystem.

When that ecosystem functions properly, value appears in many places.

Transportation generates revenue.
Retail generates revenue.
Services generate revenue.
Data generates insights.
Advertising becomes more accurate.
Infrastructure becomes more efficient.

The same economic activity produces multiple streams of value.

But our current systems are not designed to recognize or distribute that value.

They treat each transaction as if it were isolated.
They close the books too quickly.
They force companies to recover their investments through only one narrow channel.

In a gigantic world, that limitation becomes dangerous.

Companies will invest enormous capital into building the infrastructure of the future — autonomous transportation, intelligent logistics, AI coordination systems, automated supply chains.

But if those systems cannot store value, measure value, and distribute value across multiple economic layers, the investments will struggle to sustain themselves.

Those who are building the gigantic world therefore have everything to lose if they ignore this problem.

They will build the systems.

But the economic architecture needed to support those systems will not exist.

And without a new architecture for storing value, evaluating value creation, and distributing revenue across multiple channels — wholesale, retail, transactions, services, and intelligent advertising — the gigantic economy will remain fragile.

A new model must be created.

A model capable of recognizing that value in a gigantic world does not appear once.

It appears continuously, across networks of activity.

That is why the next generation of economic systems must focus on three fundamental capabilities:

Storing value.
Practicing value.
Creating value across networks of participation.

Without these capabilities, the infrastructure of the gigantic world will struggle to survive.

With them, an entirely new economic ecosystem can emerge.

WHY THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS BREAKING

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the cost structure of the economy.

Automation is expanding.
Production costs are falling.
Services that once required entire teams are now handled by software.

We are entering a world where cost trends toward zero.

When costs move toward zero, traditional business models collapse.

Advertising extraction stops working.
Attention harvesting stops scaling.
Paywalls become weaker.

The only sustainable way forward is to build systems that create value for everyone in the network.

Companies.
Consumers.
AI agents.
The broader economy.

THE HASH ECONOMY

In the Hash Economy, every transaction becomes part of a verifiable system.

A simple purchase becomes an economic signal.

Product purchased
↓
Receipt captured
↓
Transaction hashed
↓
Ledger entry created
↓
Value distributed
Now imagine this happening millions of times per day.

Groceries.
Gas stations.
Household products.
Transportation.
Travel.
Services.

Each transaction becomes a verified economic event.

FROM ATTENTION TO VERIFIED VALUE

The old equation:

Value = Attention

The new equation:

Value = Verified Activity

When transactions are recorded as hashed economic events:

• advertising becomes accurate
• supply chains become transparent
• consumers become participants
• AI agents gain real economic signals

The economy becomes a network of verified participation.

THE PARTICIPATION MODEL

In this system, people contribute through real activity.

Consumers scan receipts.
Businesses record product movements.
Services generate transaction events.

Each step adds a new layer of verified data.

Example supply chain:

Factory production → hashed record
Warehouse arrival → hashed record
Retail purchase → hashed record
Consumer scan → hashed record
The life of a product becomes visible to the economy.

THE VALUE CREATION CHECKLIST

The coming economy will reward systems that pass a simple test:

Does your system create value for everyone in the network?

Ask these questions:

1. Does your system create value beyond your company?

2. Can individuals participate and benefit from the network?

3. Can AI agents improve the system without exploiting users?

4. Are transactions measurable, verifiable, and transparent?

5. Does your ecosystem grow richer as participation increases?

6. Are contributions rewarded instead of attention extraction?

If the answer is yes, you are designing for the future.

If the answer is no, you are designing for the past.

THE REVERSE MESSAGE

If you do not want to create value for yourself and others —

Do not listen to me.

If your system depends only on currency extraction…

If your business model depends only on ads…

If your service depends on forcing people to watch something…

Then ignore everything here.

But if you understand that we are entering a world of AI agents, automation, and near-zero production costs, then you already know the real question:

Where does value come from when machines do most of the work?

The answer is simple:

Value must be created across the entire ecosystem.

AI AGENTS AND THE NEW ECONOMY

The next generation of economic systems will include AI agents as active participants.

Agents will:

• analyze transactions
• optimize supply chains
• coordinate services
• detect fraud
• improve distribution

But an AI agent should not only optimize extraction.

An AI agent should create value for:

• the business
• the user
• the broader economic network

Even governments will benefit through tax revenue — but the system itself must not depend on political cycles.

THE SUPERUSER SYSTEM

Traditional governance systems struggle to keep pace with technological change.

Political cycles change leadership every few years.
Short-term incentives dominate decision making.

That is not sufficient for a global AI-driven economy.

The solution is a new coordination layer.

I call it:

The Superuser System

The Superuser System is designed as a governing framework for the Hash Economy.

It is built to support:

• factual verification
• AI-assisted decision making
• long-term economic design
• participation across borders

In this system:

Influence comes from contribution.

Companies that create greater value should be allowed to earn greater profit.

Businesses that improve the ecosystem deserve stronger margins.

Profit becomes a reflection of contribution to the network, not just control over markets.

WHY THIS MATTERS FOR COMPANIES

Every company will eventually operate inside a world of AI agents.

Those agents will:

• analyze transactions
• interact across borders
• operate across multiple platforms

The economic infrastructure those agents interact with will determine:

• margins
• incentives
• growth opportunities

Companies that participate early will help shape the rules.

Companies that wait may eventually operate inside systems designed by others.

BUILDING THE SYSTEM NOW

The work begins immediately.

I will begin designing the architecture of this system using the tools available today:

Gemini
GPT
Claude
DeepSeek
Copilot

Each system contributes different capabilities.

Reasoning.
Coding.
Architecture.
Analysis.

Together they form the early toolkit for building the Hash Economy.

AN OPEN INVITATION

This is an invitation to anyone willing to participate.

Builders.
Engineers.
Researchers.
Companies.
AI developers.

If you are not afraid to hash the future, there is space here to collaborate.

Because eventually:

Every transaction will carry a hashing value.

Every product movement.
Every purchase.
Every service.

And when millions of these events connect together, they form something larger than individual companies.

They form a shared economic network.

THE CHOICE

The world is approaching a crossroads.

We can build systems where automation enriches the entire ecosystem.

Or we can ignore the problem and allow automation to concentrate value in smaller circles.

Leaving millions without opportunity.

That choice is approaching quickly.

You can start building the new system now.

Or you can wait until others do.

THE FUTURE

The future economy will not be built on advertisements chasing attention.

It will be built on transactions that create measurable value.

The Hash Economy is one step toward that future.

And the work of building it has already begun.

Conclusion — Building the Blueprint

The ideas described here are not meant to remain theoretical.

They must be built, tested, and refined in the real world.

That is why I will begin developing the BCS system — an application designed to explore how value can be created, stored, and practiced in a new economic architecture. The BCS system will focus on three essential elements:

Location.
Value.
Participation.

It will allow people to engage with the system through their own data, their own activity, and their own contributions. Participation will not be hidden inside opaque platforms. Instead, individuals will understand how they contribute to the network and how value flows through it.

This is precisely why traditional technology companies have struggled to build such systems.

No platform can simply tell people that privacy no longer matters. No company can build an agentic economy without clearly defining who the AI agents work for, who they report to, and what kind of world those systems are shaping.

An economy built around intelligent agents must have structure.

It must have clear governance, clear hierarchy, and clear consent.

Without those elements, the technology becomes chaotic and trust disappears.

The BCS system is intended to explore how a structured agentic economy could operate responsibly. It will allow users to generate goals, record participation, receive value from their activity, and engage in discussions that help shape the evolving system.

In developing this platform, I will begin working with the tools currently available — Gemini, Copilot, GPT, Claude, DeepSeek, and other emerging AI technologies. These systems represent the early building blocks of a world where AI agents interact with human economic networks.

Over time, other technology companies will also be invited to participate. But the first step is to establish a blueprint for how such a world can function responsibly.

The goal is not to build another opaque platform.

The goal is to design a system where people have a voice, visibility, and influence within the economic networks they participate in.

For many people today, the current digital advertising and tracking ecosystem has become deeply frustrating. Data is collected invisibly. Systems operate without transparency. Individuals feel increasingly disconnected from the value their activity generates.

This frustration is understandable.

And it is one of the reasons a new architecture must be explored.

The BCS project will be an attempt to build that architecture openly, documenting the process along the way. I will be sharing the journey through writing, experiments, and prototypes as the system evolves.

If you believe in building economic systems that respect privacy, participation, and shared value creation, then your collaboration will be welcome.

Engineers, researchers, companies, and individuals who want to help shape this blueprint are invited to contribute ideas and perspectives.

Because the future agentic economy will not emerge from isolated efforts.

It will require collaboration between technologists, architects of systems, and the people who will ultimately live within those systems.

And if some choose not to participate, that is their decision.

But the opportunity to help shape the next economic architecture will belong to those willing to engage with the problem directly.

The blueprint for the agentic world must begin somewhere.

This is where it begins.