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Steven Pruitt has edited Wikipedia over 6 MILLION times. He's created tens of thousands of articles. Time magazine named him one of the most influential people on the internet.

He's never been paid a cent.

He's not alone. Volunteers write every word of Wikipedia—serving 24 billion page views monthly across 343 languages. They killed Encyclopedia Britannica (valued at $1.25 billion in 1990) without a single paid writer.

THE PARADOX:
Standard economics says humans need payment, oversight, and incentives to produce. Wikipedia suggests that model is dangerously incomplete.

WHAT THE SCIENCE SHOWS:
Sharing knowledge activates brain reward circuitry
Paying for creative work can reduce performance
Autonomy + Mastery + Purpose is larger than External rewards
90% of gut serotonin made outside the brain

REPEATING PATTERN:
Linux: runs 100% of top 500 supercomputers, built by volunteers
OpenStreetMap: crisis maps in 48 hours, faster than governments
Stack Overflow: sold for $1.8 billion, answer-writers never paid

2024 PLOT TWIST:
As AI floods the internet with generated content, Wikipedia's human editors became MORE essential—the authentication layer between knowledge and hallucination.

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🤖 ABOUT THIS VIDEO:
This explanatory video was created using Google NotebookLM, an AI tool that generates audio discussions from written content. The voices you hear are AI-generated, not real people. The content is based on the peer-reviewed research and sources cited in the full Medium article.

The AI hosts discuss factual, scientifically documented phenomena - but the conversation itself is synthesized, not recorded.

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If humans naturally contribute when barriers are removed, what other collaborative potentials are we suppressing with outdated motivation models?

Part of "Facts That Shouldn't Be True (But Are)"—investigating what happens when reality contradicts our assumptions.

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