2020-11-20T1311 - StackOverflow's value compounds

Much like Chat is like Renting, Documentation is like Owning, Stack Overflow is quite the opposite, it's value compounds over time. For instance see this, admittedly not crazy popular answer of mine:

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It still gets upvotes now and then. Why? Because people are finding it, this mean my investment into writing an answer was 100% worth it! It took me a few minutes, yet has helped 32 people! Much better than to lose information on the treadmill.