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It's any value that's created at some point, and any value that will ever be created from that point onwards. A light cone starts at a point in space and time, and covers everything in space-time that point could causally interact with; speed of light is the speed of causality, hence "light cone".

Definition of "value" is the usual fuzzy one - both money/wealth and all kinds of things humans value that are not expressed in dollars.




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