Participatory Value

The care work insight: some value requires participation to exist at all. What can't be automated.

<p><strong>The care work insight: some value requires participation to exist at all. What can't be automated.</strong></p><p>Care work teaches us something essential: some value isn't produced and consumed—it emerges through participation. This insight reveals what remains valuable when everything else can be automated: what requires relationship to exist.</p><p>When AI can execute tasks with perfect efficiency, value shifts to what can only exist through human participation.</p>