01
Freedom and anti-domination
Treat poverty, violence, monopoly, bureaucracy, border precarity, platform lock-in, colony dependency, and automated decisions as freedom problems, not side issues.
Policy pillars
Ten pillars for a commons that expands freedom.
These are starting points for institutional design across cities, colonies, cooperatives, and federated public infrastructure — not a finished legislative programme.
02
Public-interest AI
Use AI to forecast, simulate, translate, coordinate logistics, expose trade-offs, and audit power. No black-box sovereignty or unappealable rights decisions.
03
Post-scarcity as horizon
Make money less necessary for dignity by reducing survival scarcity first: homes, food, care, energy, connectivity, education, and civic tools.
04
Cooperative automation
Help worker and user cooperatives automate toil, then federate mature essential systems into commons trusts with multi-stakeholder governance.
05
Federated membership
Guarantee universal personhood rights while letting voice deepen through local participation, contribution, and accountable federation upward.
06
Delegated direct democracy
Let delegates and citizens’ assemblies draft and explain proposals; citizens retain approval, repeal triggers, and final constitutional guardrails.
07
Secure rehabilitation
Replace revenge prisons with secure rehabilitation centres focused on risk reduction, treatment, restitution, victim support, and safe return.
08
Federated belonging
Coordinate migration and settlement through rights-preserving sponsorship, capacity declarations, family and safety constraints, and fair assignment rather than cherry-picking.
09
Narrow Safety Holds
For serious operational harm, allow time-limited, appealable, independently reviewed disclosure delays tied to mitigation — never censorship of politics.
10
Peaceful exit and forking
Protect the right to leave with data, credentials, personal property, and transition support while preventing seizure or destruction of shared essentials.