The result is an ever-growing discrepancy between what people would be willing to pay for a given service and growth as measured in national statistics. In other words, we are producing and consuming much more than our economic indicators suggest – and the creators of many of those products are not being adequately compensated.
但我们在信息时代所生产的许多东西既不具有竞争性，也不具有排他性——这改变了整个局面。信息时代商品的制造很难施加激励；它们的分配也难以货币化；我们也缺乏工具在国民账户中轻易地追踪它们。结果是人们愿意为给定服务所支付的数量与国民统计所测量的增长之间的差异越来越大。换句话说，我们生产和消费的数量比经济指标所显示的规模大得多——而许多这些产品的额制造者没有获得充分的报偿。