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What you give when taking would've been easier but less interesting.
means Something you give, add, or put in toward a shared effort or goal.
from From Latin contribuere, 'to bring together' — con- ('together') plus tribuere ('to pay, grant, allot'). That tribuere is kin to tribus, 'tribe,' since Roman tribes were originally units responsible for paying taxes. So buried in 'contribution' is an old Roman accounting term: what each tribe owed the whole.
- shared root
- tribute and contribution come from the same Latin verb
- open source
- GitHub turned contribution into a public scoreboard of green squares
- tax use
- pension contributions predate income tax by centuries
- math twist
- in statistics, a contribution can be negative and still count