I'm not an economist, and this isn't academic work. It's a structural attempt from someone outside your field. *The core claim:* Modern economics measures Cap

I'm not an economist, and this isn't academic work. It's a structural attempt from someone outside your field. *The core claim:* Modern economics measures Capital obsessively: GDP, stock prices, quarterly earnings. But civilization depends just as much on contributions that markets can't capture: - Infrastructure maintenance - Care work and child-rearing - Education and basic research - Community cohesion I call this second axis *Praise* — long-term trust credit. *The proposal:* P-Bonds: financial instruments that channel surplus capital to social pain points and pay "interest" in Praise (measured in "bips"), not currency. Examples: - Coastal flood protection (investment-type P-Bond) - Rural digital connectivity (recruitment-type P-Bond) - Nationwide basic income (donation-type P-Bond) *The method:* I wrote this with GPT as my co-author. I define the conceptual constraints, GPT drafts, I refine. 23,000 words across 4 chapters. *What I want to know:* Which existing theories does this resemble, extend, or contradict? - Piketty's r > g? - Ostrom's commons? - Social capital frameworks? - Something else entirely? I'm prepared to be wrong — but I want to understand where this sits in the existing landscape. Table of Contents: [URL]