Core releaseCore 1.0
Perspective stateFrozen release snapshot
Published19 August 2026
Starting question
Starting question
A worker may spend years correcting, contextualizing and developing a +. The model treats some resulting capability as personally accumulated productive capital.
Possible connection
Possible connection
Ownership can align incentives: the worker has reason to teach deeply if legitimate portable capability remains theirs.
Tension to explore
Tension to explore
Models, employer data, platform infrastructure, human know-how and generated artifacts may all contribute to capability, making clean ownership difficult.
Evidence needed
Evidence needed
Define technically separable learning artifacts and test legal treatment under employment, IP, trade-secret and data-protection regimes.
Next pass
What should we add here?
ArgumentWhat is the strongest case that Human Capital .+ changes this topic?
CounterargumentWhat would a serious critic say we are overlooking?
Institutional consequenceWhich law, contract, organization or public system would have to change?
MeasurementWhat real-world evidence would make this perspective more than speculation?