The Burst Market: The Next Leap for Humanity

Vincent Yuansang Zha

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Abstract: Many useful human contributions remain unexchanged because exchange frictions exceed their value. This conceptual paper proposes the Burst Market (BM): a market for brief, paid, immediate human services delivered through live video. BM seeks to lower the minimum viable exchange through PIVOT: Provider-set price, Immediate access, Video interaction, Open participation, and Time-metered payment. A four-part friction map covers buyer access, provider market access, capability packaging, and assurance and governance. BM identifies seven rebalances, including AI job disruption versus underused human capability, and serves both scarce and underused capacity. As generative market infrastructure, BM may let people create services that established occupations and platforms cannot foresee. Seven conceptual propositions organize its mechanisms and predictions. If these effects emerge at scale, BM could represent the next leap for humanity.

Date: 2021-12, Revised 2026-09
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