Economic Praxis

The Economic: The Art of Circulating Value

How we produce, exchange, and steward resources. This is the domain of reciprocal exchange, circular systems, and transparent accounting. Here, we master roles like mutual aid weaver, cradle-to-cradle designer, and commons fund steward to create an economy of care and abundance.

Accounting and Regulation

Circles Topics & Roles

🏦 Transparency and Fairness

Social Audit Facilitator: Ensures all communal economic processes and resource flows are open to scrutiny and evaluation by any community member.

🏦 Finance and Money

Complementary Currency Keeper: Maintains and oversees any localized mediums of exchange designed to facilitate trade without enabling wealth hoarding.

🏦 Goods and Services

Use-Value Cataloguer: Documents and makes accessible the available goods and services within the community, focusing on their utility and embedded labor.

🏦 Land and Property

Commons Land Trustee: Holds land and key assets in trust for the community, granting rights of use but not ownership or speculative sale.

🏦 Labour and Employment

Alienation Analyst: Works to identify and redesign any tasks that create feelings of powerlessness or meaninglessness, drawing from critiques of "bullshit jobs".

🏦 Taxes and Levies

Voluntary Contribution Registrar: Tracks voluntary contributions to the commons fund based on ability, fostering a culture of generosity and collective responsibility.

Vital Signs Ledger

  • Real-Time Resource Flow Models tracking Goods and Services, Land and Property use, and Labour and Employment hours.
  • Open Books Interface for the Commons Fund and all community projects, ensuring Transparency and Fairness.
  • Ecological Impact Accounting that measures the resource footprint of all economic activities.
  • Regulation & Policy Registry where all current rules governing Finance and Money, Taxes and Levies are stored, debated, and updated.

This Commons is the bedrock of trust in the economic system. It makes the abstract concept of "the economy" into a tangible, legible, and manageable system. It is the essential tool for the Social Audit Facilitator, the Commons Land Trustee, and the Alienation Analyst to perform their duties, preventing corruption and ensuring the system works for all.

About

A unified, public-facing dashboard that serves as the community's central nervous system for economic and regulatory data. It integrates all flows of value, not just financial, into a single transparent interface.

Digital Hubs

"The Vital Signs Ledger"

  • Real-Time Resource Flow Dashboard: Live tracking of goods/services, land/property use, and labor/employment hours
  • Open Books Interface: Transparent view of Commons Fund and all community project finances
  • Ecological Impact Accounting: System for measuring resource footprint of all economic activities
  • Regulation & Policy Registry: Living document of all current rules with version control and amendment tracking
  • Transparency Index Calculator: Automated metrics on data accessibility and participation in audits
  • Flow Equity Analyzer: Visualization tools showing distribution of resources and opportunities
Physical Hubs

"The Transparency Commons"

  • Public Accounting Hall: Space with large displays showing real-time economic data
  • Social Audit Chambers: Rooms for community members to review and question economic processes
  • Regulatory Debate Forum: Amphitheater for discussing and amending community regulations
  • Currency Exchange Station: Physical location for complementary currency transactions and education
  • Land Trust Office: Space for Commons Land Trustees to meet with community members
  • Alienation Analysis Lab: Research area for studying and redesigning alienating work

Transparency Guardians Pod

Pod Mandate

To ensure the community's economic and regulatory systems are transparent, fair, and aligned with ecological and social well-being. They are the stewards of the community's economic integrity.

  • Social Audit Facilitator (🏦 Transparency and Fairness): Ensures all economic processes are open to scrutiny.
  • Complementary Currency Keeper (🏦 Finance and Money): Maintains local mediums of exchange.
  • Use-Value Cataloguer (🏦 Goods and Services): Documents available goods based on utility.
  • Commons Land Trustee (🏦 Land and Property): Holds land and assets in trust for the community.
  • Alienation Analyst (🏦 Labour and Employment): Identifies and redesigns alienating work.
  • Voluntary Contribution Registrar (🏦 Taxes and Levies): Tracks contributions to the commons fund.
Digital Workspace

Transparency Guardians Pod Digital Headquarters

  • Multi-Domain Economic Dashboard: Integrated view of all economic flows across Commons
  • Audit Coordination Platform: Tools for scheduling and conducting social audits
  • Regulatory Amendment Tracker: Manages the process of updating community rules
  • Currency Management System: Tools for overseeing complementary currency systems
Physical Resource Kits
  • Social Audit Kit: Verification tools, interview guides, data analysis templates
  • Currency Management Pack: Physical currency materials, exchange tracking tools, educational resources
  • Use-Value Cataloging Tools: Inventory systems, utility assessment guides, resource mapping materials
  • Land Trust Documentation: Survey tools, use agreement templates, conservation easement materials
  • Alienation Analysis Toolkit: Work satisfaction surveys, task redesign frameworks, meaningful work assessment

"Resource Scarcity & Allocation" Protocol

Protocol Purpose

To manage the high-stakes scenario where a critical common resource (e.g., water, energy, housing in a desired area, a key material) faces unsustainable demand or acute shortage. This protocol prevents hoarding, conflict, and ensures a fair, transparent, and democratic response that upholds Transparency and Fairness.

Protocol Process
  • Scarcity Declaration & Transparency: The Use-Value Cataloguer or Commons Land Trustee formally declares a state of scarcity in the Vital Signs Ledger, with full data on available supply and current demand.
  • Community Deliberation on Values: The Social Audit Facilitator hosts public forums to decide the core values for allocation (e.g., need, community benefit, historical access, lottery).
  • Proposal & Impact Assessment: The community, facilitated by the Alienation Analyst, brainstorms allocation methods, each assessed for their social, economic, and ecological impact.
  • Democratic Selection & Implementation: A democratic process (e.g., ranked-choice voting) selects the allocation method. The Complementary Currency Keeper and Voluntary Contribution Registrar may implement a tracking system for fair distribution.
  • Post-Allocation Review & System Redesign: The Transparency Guardians Pod leads a review of the process, using the data to propose long-term systemic solutions (e.g., increasing production, finding substitutes) to prevent future scarcity.

"Resource Scarcity & Allocation" Protocol Suite

  • Scarcity Declaration System: Formal process for declaring and documenting resource shortages
  • Community Values Deliberation Platform: Tools for facilitating public forums on allocation principles
  • Impact Assessment Matrix: Framework for evaluating social, economic, and ecological impacts of allocation methods
  • Democratic Selection Engine: Implements ranked-choice voting and other selection methods
  • Post-Allocation Review System: Structured process for learning from scarcity events

Regulatory Evolution Toolkit

  • Policy Impact Tracker: Monitors effects of regulations and identifies need for updates
  • Stakeholder Analysis Tool: Identifies who is affected by regulatory changes
  • Regulatory Experimentation Framework: Manages trial periods for new regulations
  • Compliance Monitoring System: Tracks adherence to community rules with transparency

"Annual Integrity & Equity Audit"

A comprehensive and brutally honest assessment of the health, fairness, and transparency of the community's economic and regulatory systems. It is the community's check-up on its economic conscience.

  • Social Audit Facilitator (🏦 Transparency and Fairness): Ensures all economic processes are open to scrutiny.
  • Complementary Currency Keeper (🏦 Finance and Money): Maintains local mediums of exchange.
  • Use-Value Cataloguer (🏦 Goods and Services): Documents available goods based on utility.
  • Commons Land Trustee (🏦 Land and Property): Holds land and assets in trust for the community.
  • Alienation Analyst (🏦 Labour and Employment): Identifies and redesigns alienating work.
  • Voluntary Contribution Registrar (🏦 Taxes and Levies): Tracks contributions to the commons fund.

Annual "Integrity & Equity Audit" Report System

  • Transparency Index Generator: Automated metrics on data accessibility and audit participation
  • Flow Equity Visualization: Tools for creating compelling visualizations of resource distribution
  • Alienation & Fulfillment Report Builder: System for analyzing work quality and redesign successes
  • Regulatory Evolution Timeline: Interactive display of how rules have adapted over time

Consumption and Use

Circles Topics & Roles

🌽 Appropriate Use and Re-use

Cradle-to-Cradle Systems Designer: Plans and manages systems where all "waste" is redesigned as nutrient for another biological or technical process.

🌽 Food and Drink

Food System Cultivator: Grows, forages, or prepares food with a deep understanding of its nutritional, cultural, and ecological significance.

🌽 Goods and Services

Needs & Abundance Mapper: Creates a public, real-time map of community needs and available resources to optimize matching and minimize waste.

🌽 Water and Electricity

Public Utility Maintainer: Ensures the resilient and equitable operation of decentralized, renewable energy grids and water catchment/purification systems.

🌽 Petroleum and Metals

Post-Extraction Material Guardian: Manages the responsible and minimal use of legacy industrial materials, prioritizing their conservation in a circular economy.

🌽 Promotion and Dissemination

Knowledge Sharer: Focuses on spreading useful information, skills, and innovations through popular education, rather than creating demand for unneeded goods.

Circular Flow Hub

  • "Material Passports" for major goods, detailing their composition, repair history, and end-of-life disassembly instructions (Appropriate Use and Re-use).
  • A real-time "Needs & Surplus" Exchange for Goods and Services, Food and Drink, and materials.
  • Public Utility Dashboards for Water and Electricity usage, fostering collective conservation.
  • "Legacy Material" Registry for tracking and phasing out the use of Petroleum and Metals.
  • A "Cultural Promotion" board for sharing skills, recipes, and stories about Promotion and Dissemination of sustainable practices, not products.

This Commons makes the community's material metabolism visible and manageable. It is the primary tool for eliminating waste, ensuring Appropriate Use and Re-use, and transforming consumption from a private act into a collaboratively managed process. It directly serves the Cradle-to-Cradle Systems Designer and the Needs & Abundance Mapper.

About

A dynamic, public platform that maps, manages, and optimizes the entire lifecycle of all physical objects and resources within the community, from sourcing to repurposing.

Digital Hubs

"The Circular Flow Hub"

  • Material Passport System: Digital identities for all major goods tracking composition, repair history, and disassembly instructions
  • Needs & Surplus Exchange: Real-time matching of community needs with available resources and skills
  • Public Utility Dashboards: Live monitoring of water, energy, and resource flows with conservation tracking
  • Legacy Material Registry: Database tracking petroleum-based and extractive materials for responsible phase-out
  • Cultural Promotion Board: Platform for sharing sustainable practices, recipes, and skills rather than products
  • Lifecycle Assessment Tools: Calculators for environmental impact of consumption choices
Physical Hubs

"The Metabolic Center"

  • Circular Marketplace: Space for sharing, repairing, and exchanging goods with repair stations
  • Needs Mapping Room: Interactive displays showing community resource flows and unmet needs
  • Utility Monitoring Station: Public displays of resource consumption with educational materials
  • Material Library: Sample library of sustainable materials and their properties
  • Knowledge Sharing Amphitheater: Space for workshops on sustainable consumption
  • Legacy Material Archive: Secure storage for materials being phased out of use

Circular Flow Stewards Pod

Pod Mandate

To nurture a community culture and practice where nothing is wasted, resources are valued and fully utilized, and consumption is a conscious, regenerative act aligned with ecological limits.

  • Cradle-to-Cradle Systems Designer (🌽 Appropriate Use and Re-use): Plans systems where all "waste" becomes a nutrient.
  • Food System Cultivator (🌽 Food and Drink): Grows and prepares food with ecological and cultural awareness.
  • Needs & Abundance Mapper (🌽 Goods and Services): Creates a public map of community needs and available resources.
  • Public Utility Maintainer (🌽 Water and Electricity): Ensures resilient and equitable operation of essential utilities.
  • Post-Extraction Material Guardian (🌽 Petroleum and Metals): Manages the responsible use of legacy industrial materials.
  • Knowledge Sharer (🌽 Promotion and Dissemination): Spreads skills and information on sustainable use.
Digital Workspace

Circular Flow Stewards Pod Digital Headquarters

  • Metabolic Flow Dashboard: Real-time monitoring of all community resource flows
  • Object Lifecycle Manager: Tracks items from introduction through reuse cycles
  • Need-Surplus Matching Algorithm: Optimizes resource distribution across community
  • Cultural Practice Innovation Lab: Space for developing new sharing and use models
Physical Resource Kits
  • Cradle-to-Cradle Design Kit: Circular design principles, material flow mapping tools, lifecycle assessment guides
  • Food System Toolkit: Preservation equipment, nutritional analysis tools, food sharing coordination materials
  • Needs Mapping Kit: Community survey tools, resource tracking materials, abundance visualization aids
  • Utility Maintenance Pack: Water and energy monitoring equipment, repair tools, efficiency improvement guides
  • Knowledge Sharing Kit: Workshop materials, skill demonstration tools, cultural practice documentation

"New Object Introduction & Lifecycle" Protocol

Protocol Purpose

To govern the high-stakes decision of introducing any new, non-perishable good into the community's material stream. This is the primary mechanism for preventing waste, avoiding toxin accumulation, and ensuring all objects are designed for the circular economy from the outset.

Protocol Process
  • Lifecycle Proposal: Anyone wishing to introduce a new object must submit a "Lifecycle Proposal" to the Circular Flow Hub, detailing its source materials, expected lifespan, repair plan, and end-of-life pathway.
  • "Waste Audit" Review: The Cradle-to-Cradle Systems Designer and Post-Extraction Material Guardian review the proposal, assessing its fit within the community's metabolic cycles and its potential to become waste.
  • Community Need Assessment: The Needs & Abundance Mapper facilitates a discussion on whether the object fulfills a genuine need or duplicates existing Goods and Services.
  • Provisional Adoption with Stewardship Bond: If approved, the object is admitted, but the introducer is responsible for a "stewardship bond" – a deposit held in the Commons Fund to cover its eventual recycling or safe disposal costs, incentivizing durability and repairability.
  • Full Integration & Bond Return: Once the object's lifecycle is proven to be circular (e.g., it is successfully repaired and recirculated), the stewardship bond is returned. The Knowledge Sharer then documents the object's successful integration for the community.

"New Object Introduction & Lifecycle" Protocol Suite

  • Lifecycle Proposal Builder: Guided process for submitting new object proposals with full environmental impact assessment
  • Waste Audit Analyzer: Tools for evaluating objects' end-of-life pathways and circularity potential
  • Community Need Validator: System for assessing whether new objects meet genuine needs
  • Stewardship Bond Calculator: Determines appropriate deposits for eventual recycling/disposal costs
  • Circular Integration Tracker: Monitors objects through their lifecycle until bond return

Resource Flow Optimization Toolkit

  • Metabolic Balance Calculator: Tools for ensuring community consumption aligns with local production capacity
  • Waste Stream Mapper: Visualizes material flows and identifies leakage points
  • Utility Efficiency Optimizer: Identifies opportunities for reducing water and energy consumption
  • Cultural Practice Evolver: Tracks and promotes shifts from product consumption to skill sharing

"Annual Metabolism of Things" Report

  • Description: A comprehensive and visually engaging audit that tells the story of what the community consumes, how it uses it, and where it all goes, measuring the progress toward a true circular economy.
  • Cradle-to-Cradle Systems Designer (🌽 Appropriate Use and Re-use): Plans systems where all "waste" becomes a nutrient.
  • Food System Cultivator (🌽 Food and Drink): Grows and prepares food with ecological and cultural awareness.
  • Needs & Abundance Mapper (🌽 Goods and Services): Creates a public map of community needs and available resources.
  • Public Utility Maintainer (🌽 Water and Electricity): Ensures resilient and equitable operation of essential utilities.
  • Post-Extraction Material Guardian (🌽 Petroleum and Metals): Manages the responsible use of legacy industrial materials.
  • Knowledge Sharer (🌽 Promotion and Dissemination): Spreads skills and information on sustainable use.

Annual "Metabolism of Things" Report System

  • Circularity Quotient Calculator: Core metric showing percentage of material flows that are cyclical vs linear
  • Resource Wisdom Narrative Curator: Compiles stories of innovative reuse and repair successes
  • Utility & Footprint Analyzer: Tracks consumption trends and reduction progress
  • Needs Fulfillment Index: Measures how well material flows meet actual human needs vs manufactured wants

Exchange and Transfer

Circles Topics & Roles

💱 Reciprocity and Mutuality

Mutual Aid Network Weaver: Facilitates systems of non-monetized exchange and mutual support, strengthening the social fabric through generalized reciprocity.

💱 Goods and Services

Local Exchange Facilitator: Manages the logistics of distributing goods and coordinating services within and between bioregional communities.

💱 Finance and Taxes

Commons Fund Steward: Administers collectively managed resources for public projects, social care, and universal basic services, replacing coercive taxation.

💱 Trade and Tourism

Cultural Ambassador: Facilitates meaningful and equitable cultural and material exchange with other communities, ensuring visits are respectful and mutually beneficial.

💱 Aid and Remittances

Solidarity Coordinator: Manages the direct and unconditional sharing of surplus resources with other communities in times of need or imbalance.

💱 Debt and Liability

Restorative Accountability Facilitator: Guides processes for addressing broken agreements or harms, focusing on repairing relationships rather than punitive debt.

Livelyhood Flow Commons

  • A "Needs & Capacities" Public Board where members post what they need and what they can offer.
  • A "Reciprocity Ledger" that tracks exchanges (both monetary and non-monetary) to visualize patterns of mutuality and ensure no one is chronically over-giving or under-contributing.
  • Logistics & Transport Coordination Maps for sharing routes and capacity for Trade and Tourism and local Goods and Services transfer.
  • Solidarity Fund Dashboards showing real-time status of Aid and Remittances and the Commons Fund.
  • A public registry of all Debt and Liability agreements, ensuring they are structured fairly and transparently.

This Commons makes the invisible economy of care, reciprocity, and resource flow visible. It is the primary tool for the Mutual Aid Network Weaver to connect people, the Local Exchange Facilitator to optimize logistics, and the Solidarity Coordinator to mobilize aid. It prevents the hoarding of information and resources, ensuring the economy remains a living, responsive system.

About
  • Description: A real-time, transparent dashboard and logistics platform that maps and facilitates the entire flow of goods, services, and mutual aid within and between communities. It functions as the circulatory system of the economic body.
Digital Hubs

"The Livelyhood Flow Commons"

  • Needs & Capacities Public Board: Real-time matching system where members post needs and offerings with intelligent suggestion algorithms
  • Reciprocity Ledger: Transparent tracking of exchanges (monetary and non-monetary) to visualize mutuality patterns and prevent chronic imbalances
  • Logistics & Transport Coordination: Dynamic mapping of shared routes and capacity for trade, tourism, and local goods transfer
  • Solidarity Fund Dashboards: Live displays of aid flows, remittances, and Commons Fund status with impact metrics
  • Debt & Liability Registry: Public tracking of all agreements with fair structure guidelines and transparency controls
  • Cultural Exchange Platform: Tools for facilitating meaningful inter-community visits and knowledge sharing
Physical Hubs

"The Flow Weavers Lodge"

  • Reciprocity Exchange Hall: Central space for coordinating mutual aid and local exchanges with real-time displays
  • Logistics Coordination Center: Dispatch and planning area for transport sharing and goods movement
  • Cultural Ambassador Suite: Welcoming space for visitors and preparation for community exchanges
  • Solidarity Fund Office: Transparent administration of community resource sharing and emergency aid
  • Restorative Accountability Space: Dedicated area for addressing broken agreements and relationship repair
  • Flow Visualization Gallery: Interactive displays showing the health of community exchange networks

Flow Weavers Pod

Pod Mandate

To ensure the smooth, equitable, and resilient flow of all forms of value (material and immaterial) through the community, fostering deep reciprocity and preventing bottlenecks or exploitation.

  • Mutual Aid Network Weaver (💱 Reciprocity and Mutuality): Facilitates non-monetized exchange and support systems.
  • Local Exchange Facilitator (💱 Goods and Services): Manages the logistics of distributing goods and coordinating services.
  • Solidarity Coordinator (💱 Aid and Remittances): Manages the sharing of surplus with other communities.
  • Cultural Ambassador (💱 Trade and Tourism): Facilitates meaningful and equitable cultural exchange.
  • Commons Fund Steward (💱 Finance and Taxes): Administers collectively managed resources.
  • Restorative Accountability Facilitator (💱 Debt and Liability): Guides processes for addressing broken agreements.
Digital Workspace

Flow Weavers Pod Digital Headquarters

  • Exchange Flow Dashboard: Real-time monitoring of all community resource movements
  • Mutual Aid Coordination Platform: Tools for connecting needs with offerings across the community
  • Logistics Optimization System: Route planning and capacity matching for efficient transport
  • Cultural Exchange Manager: Coordinates visits and knowledge sharing with other communities
Physical Resource Kits
  • Mutual Aid Coordination Kit: Need assessment tools, matching algorithms, community building guides
  • Local Exchange Facilitator Pack: Logistics planning materials, transport coordination systems, inventory management
  • Cultural Ambassador Toolkit: Visitor welcoming materials, cultural sensitivity guides, exchange planning resources
  • Solidarity Fund Administration Set: Transparent accounting tools, impact measurement, distribution tracking
  • Restorative Accountability Kit: Dialogue facilitation guides, agreement templates, relationship repair resources

"Scarce Resource Allocation" Protocol

Protocol Purpose

To manage the high-stakes, recurring situation where a highly desired or essential resource (e.g., a specialized tool, a limited harvest, housing in a prime location) cannot meet immediate demand. This is where "fairness" is most tested and where conflict over access can arise, threatening the principle of Reciprocity and Mutuality.

Protocol Process
  • Transparent Declaration: The scarcity is immediately logged in the Livelyhood Flow Commons by the Local Exchange Facilitator, with all relevant details and a defined period for expressing need.
  • Needs-Based Triage: The Mutual Aid Network Weaver and Commons Fund Steward facilitate a process where claimants describe their intended use and need, moving beyond a simple queue to a more nuanced understanding of community benefit and urgency.
  • Deliberative Lottery: If needs are relatively equal, a public, weighted lottery is held. Weighting can favor those who have historically had less access or those whose use yields a significant common good, as defined by community values.
  • Temporal Sharing Agreement: The protocol often results in a co-ownership or time-sharing agreement for the resource, brokered by the Restorative Accountability Facilitator, with usage scheduled and tracked in the Commons.
  • Post-Allocation Review: The outcomes and the process itself are reviewed by the pod and the community to identify systemic issues—is this a one-time scarcity or a sign that we need to produce more of this resource?

"Scarce Resource Allocation" Protocol Suite

  • Scarcity Declaration System: Formal process for documenting and communicating resource limitations
  • Needs-Based Triage Facilitator: Tools for assessing and prioritizing community needs beyond simple queuing
  • Deliberative Lottery Engine: Weighted random selection system that favors historical access equity and common benefit
  • Temporal Sharing Agreement Builder: Creates and manages co-ownership and time-sharing arrangements
  • Post-Allocation Review System: Analyzes scarcity events to identify systemic solutions

Exchange Optimization Toolkit

  • Flow Health Analyzer: Measures velocity and equity of resource circulation through the community
  • Mutual Aid Network Designer: Tools for creating and sustaining non-monetized support systems
  • Cultural Exchange Impact Assessor: Evaluates the mutual benefit of inter-community visits and trades
  • Restorative Accountability Guide: Structured processes for repairing relationship breaches

"Annual Flow of Gifts" Report

A beautiful and insightful assessment that reframes the community's economy not in terms of GDP, but in terms of the circulation of care, resources, and mutual support.

  • Mutual Aid Network Weaver (💱 Reciprocity and Mutuality): Facilitates non-monetized exchange and support systems.
  • Local Exchange Facilitator (💱 Goods and Services): Manages the logistics of distributing goods and coordinating services.
  • Solidarity Coordinator (💱 Aid and Remittances): Manages the sharing of surplus with other communities.
  • Cultural Ambassador (💱 Trade and Tourism): Facilitates meaningful and equitable cultural exchange.
  • Commons Fund Steward (💱 Finance and Taxes): Administers collectively managed resources.
  • Restorative Accountability Facilitator (💱 Debt and Liability): Guides processes for addressing broken agreements.

Annual "Flow of Gifts" Report System

  • Reciprocity Narrative Weaver: Compiles stories of successful mutual aid and collaborative support
  • Flow Metrics Visualizer: Creates compelling graphics of exchange volume, diversity, and efficiency
  • Circulation Health Index Calculator: Composite metric of need fulfillment speed and participation breadth
  • Scarcity-to-Abundance Mapper: Tracks chronic shortages and community-driven solutions

Labor and Welfare

Circles Topics & Roles

🗳️ Livelihoods and Work

Meaningful Livelihood Guarantor: Ensures every community member has access to a variety of meaningful tasks that provide purpose, dignity, and a claim on social wealth.

🗳️ Connection and Vocation

Vocation Mentor: Helps individuals discover their passions and aptitudes, and connects them to roles where they can best contribute to the common good.

🗳️ Participation and Equity

Participatory Rotator: Designs systems to ensure necessary but less desirable tasks are shared equitably, and that power and interesting work are distributed widely.

🗳️ Capacity and Productivity

Skill Deepening Coach: Facilitates continuous learning and skill-sharing to enhance the collective capacities and joyful mastery of the community.

🗳️ Health and Safety

Workplace Well-being Guardian: Assesses all tasks for physical and psychological risks, and advocates for and implements ergonomic and humane practices.

🗳️ Care and Support

Care Network Organizer: Weaves the web of communal support for children, the elderly, and those who are sick or disabled, recognizing care as fundamental economic work.

Contribution & Care Ledger

  • A "Vocation & Capacities" Registry where members map their passions, skills, and desired growth areas (Connection and Vocation).
  • A "Community Needs & Tasks" Board where essential but less desirable work is made visible and rotated (Participation and Equity).
  • A "Care Support Network" interface for requesting and offering Care and Support for children, elders, and those in need.
  • Well-being Dashboards for tracking Health and Safety metrics and Capacity and Productivity in terms of community outcomes, not output.
  • An anonymized "Livelihoods and Work" log that tracks the balance and diversity of contributions to ensure no one is overburdened.

This Commons makes the entire economy of care and labor visible and manageable. It is the primary tool for the Meaningful Livelihood Guarantor to match people with roles, the Participatory Rotator to ensure fairness, and the Care Network Organizer to mobilize support. It prevents the exploitation and invisibility of care work and ensures everyone's basic needs are met as a right of membership.

About
  • Description: A multi-dimensional, transparent platform that redefines the concept of a "labor market" into a dynamic map of community contribution and need. It is designed to recognize all forms of work, especially care.
Digital Hubs

"The Contribution & Care Ledger"

  • Vocation & Capacities Registry: Dynamic mapping of members' passions, skills, and desired growth areas
  • Community Needs & Tasks Board: Transparent display of essential work with equitable rotation tracking
  • Care Support Network Interface: System for requesting and offering care for children, elders, and those in need
  • Well-being Dashboard: Real-time monitoring of workplace safety, stress levels, and community health metrics
  • Livelihood Balance Tracker: Anonymous logging of contributions to prevent overwork and ensure fair distribution
  • Skill Deepening Exchange: Platform for continuous learning, mentorship, and mastery development
Physical Hubs

"The Livelihood Commons"

  • Vocation Discovery Center: Space for career counseling, skill assessment, and passion exploration
  • Task Coordination Hall: Central location for work assignment, rotation management, and labor exchange
  • Care Network Hub: Dedicated space for childcare, elder support, and mutual aid coordination
  • Well-being Clinic: Occupational health services, stress management, and workplace safety resources
  • Skill Sharing Amphitheater: Space for workshops, apprenticeships, and knowledge transmission
  • Restorative Break Rooms: Designed spaces for relaxation, contemplation, and work recovery

Livelihood Weavers Pod

Pod Mandate

To ensure every community member has access to meaningful, dignified contributions and is supported in their overall well-being. They focus on matching individual passion with community need, distributing necessary work fairly, and guaranteeing a high quality of life for all.

  • Meaningful Livelihood Guarantor (🗳️ Livelihoods and Work): Ensures access to purposeful roles.
  • Vocation Mentor (🗳️ Connection and Vocation): Helps individuals discover their passions and aptitudes.
  • Participatory Rotator (🗳️ Participation and Equity): Designs systems to share necessary tasks equitably.
  • Skill Deepening Coach (🗳️ Capacity and Productivity): Facilitates continuous learning and mastery.
  • Workplace Well-being Guardian (🗳️ Health and Safety): Assesses and advocates for humane practices.
  • Care Network Organizer (🗳️ Care and Support): Weaves the web of mutual aid for care work.
Digital Workspace

Livelihood Weavers Pod Digital Headquarters

  • Labor Flow Dashboard: Real-time monitoring of work distribution and participation rates
  • Capacity Matching Platform: AI-assisted system for connecting skills with community needs
  • Well-being Monitoring System: Tracks stress levels and prevents burnout across roles
  • Care Coordination Hub: Manages the complex web of mutual support and care work
Physical Resource Kits
  • Vocation Discovery Kit: Assessment tools, passion mapping guides, community need inventories
  • Task Rotation Toolkit: Scheduling systems, fairness algorithms, participatory design materials
  • Skill Development Pack: Learning resources, mastery tracking tools, mentorship guides
  • Care Coordination Kit: Family support materials, elder care resources, disability access tools
  • Well-being Maintenance Set: Stress assessment tools, restorative practice guides, safety equipment

"Burden & Vitality Balancing" Protocol

Protocol Purpose

To address the high-stakes, recurring challenge of ensuring that essential but potentially stressful, repetitive, or undesirable work (e.g., waste processing, night safety watches, cleaning communal spaces) is distributed fairly, and that no one is overburdened to the point of burnout, while also ensuring these tasks get done. This directly tests the community's commitment to Equity and Care.

Protocol Process
  • Task Audit & Impact Assessment: The Workplace Well-being Guardian and Participatory Rotator collaboratively audit all necessary tasks, rating them for stress, desirability, and physical/emotional load.
  • Transparent Burden Tracking: The Contribution & Care Ledger anonymously tracks the distribution of "high-burden" tasks across the community, flagging individuals who are approaching a defined threshold.
  • Proactive Rebalancing: When the system flags an imbalance, the Meaningful Livelihood Guarantor and Vocation Mentor intervene supportively. They work with the individual to reduce their load and the Participatory Rotator to find others to share the work, potentially through a lottery or incentive system (e.g., extra leisure time, recognition).
  • Well-being Check-ins: The Care Network Organizer ensures that anyone undertaking a high-burden role has a dedicated support person and access to restorative practices.
  • Systemic Redesign Review: The pod uses data from the protocol to identify tasks that could be automated, redesigned, or transformed to make them less burdensome, engaging the Skill Deepening Coach to train people in new methods.

"Burden & Vitality Balancing" Protocol Suite

  • Task Audit & Impact Assessment Tool: Rates all community work for stress, desirability, and physical/emotional load
  • Burden Tracking System: Anonymous monitoring of "high-burden" task distribution with automatic threshold alerts
  • Proactive Rebalancing Engine: Identifies imbalances and suggests fair redistribution strategies
  • Well-being Check-in Scheduler: Automated system for ensuring support for those in demanding roles
  • Systemic Redesign Analyzer: Identifies tasks that could be automated or transformed to reduce burden

Labor Optimization Toolkit

  • Meaningful Work Matchmaker: Algorithm for connecting individual passions with community needs
  • Participatory Rotation Designer: Tools for creating fair systems for sharing less desirable work
  • Capacity Development Planner: Individualized skill-building and mastery pathways
  • Care Gap Analyzer: Identifies unmet care needs and mobilizes community response

"Annual State of Work & Well-being" Report

  • Description: A holistic assessment that measures the health of the community not by economic output, but by the dignity, meaning, and safety of its work, and the overall welfare of its members.
  • Meaningful Livelihood Guarantor (🗳️ Livelihoods and Work): Ensures access to purposeful roles.
  • Vocation Mentor (🗳️ Connection and Vocation): Helps individuals discover their passions and aptitudes.
  • Participatory Rotator (🗳️ Participation and Equity): Designs systems to share necessary tasks equitably.
  • Skill Deepening Coach (🗳️ Capacity and Productivity): Facilitates continuous learning and mastery.
  • Workplace Well-being Guardian (🗳️ Health and Safety): Assesses and advocates for humane practices.
  • Care Network Organizer (🗳️ Care and Support): Weaves the web of mutual aid for care work.

Annual "State of Work & Well-being" Report System

  • Dignity of Work Index: Composite metric tracking task distribution equity and work satisfaction
  • Care Network Analysis: Detailed assessment of care provision vs. needs across the community
  • Skills & Mastery Narrative: Stories of collective skill development and problem-solving
  • Well-being & Safety Dashboard: Analysis of incidents, mental health indicators, and work-life balance

Production and Resourcing

Circles Topics & Roles

⚒️ Prosperity and Resilience

Community Resilience Steward: Cultivates robust, diverse, and adaptive local economies focused on well-being and stability, enabling the community to recover from and adapt to disruptions.

⚒️ Manufacture and Fabrication

Circular Fabricator: Operates small-scale, ethical workshops for producing durable goods, prioritizing repair, reuse, and recycling in a closed-loop system.

⚒️ Extraction and Harvesting

Ecological Harvest Guardian: Manages the sustainable and respectful drawing of resources from nature, ensuring regenerative practices and preventing depletion.

⚒️ Art and Craft

Community Artisan: Creates objects of beauty and daily use that embed cultural meaning, strengthen local identity, and are made to last for generations.

⚒️ Design and Innovation

Open-Source Solutions Designer: Develops appropriate, robust, and liberating technologies; all designs are shared as a common resource for all to use and adapt.

⚒️ Human and Physical Resources

Capacity & Commons Coordinator: Matches community members' skills and passions with projects, while maintaining shared tools, spaces, and resource libraries.

Regenerative Resource Ledger & Design Commons

  • A "Material Library & Passport" database tracking the origin, composition, and potential for reuse/recycling of all materials in circulation (Minerals and Metals, Petroleum and Biofuels, etc.).
  • Open-Source Design Files for all products, emphasizing modularity, repairability, and cradle-to-cradle principles (Design and Innovation).
  • "Living Yield Maps" of the local ecology, showing sustainable harvest levels for biological resources (Extraction and Harvesting).
  • A registry of "Human & Physical Resources" and "Art and Craft" capacities, connecting skills to projects.
  • Real-time dashboards for monitoring "Prosperity and Resilience" indicators like resource stocks and system redundancy.

This Commons is the antidote to the opaque, extractive supply chains of capitalism. It makes the entire material footprint of the community visible and manageable. It is essential for the Ecological Harvest Guardian to set sustainable yields, the Circular Fabricator to source materials, and the Open-Source Solutions Designer to share innovations. It turns production from a private, profit-driven activity into a public, ecologically-regulated process.

About

A dynamic, open-source platform that serves as the collective brain and memory for the community's material metabolism. It maps the entire lifecycle of resources, from source to reuse.

Digital Hubs

"The Regenerative Resource Commons"

  • Material Library & Passport System: Digital identities for all materials tracking origin, composition, and reuse potential
  • Open-Source Design Repository: Version-controlled library of modular, repairable product designs with collaboration tools
  • Living Yield Mapping: Real-time ecological monitoring of sustainable harvest levels and regeneration rates
  • Capacity & Skills Registry: Database of community manufacturing capabilities and artisan expertise
  • Prosperity Resilience Dashboard: Indicators of local economic health, system redundancy, and adaptive capacity
  • Circular Economy Tracker: Monitors material flows from extraction to reuse with impact metrics
Physical Hubs

"The Metabolic Workshop Complex"

  • Circular Fabrication Space: Workshop for producing durable goods with repair and remanufacturing stations
  • Material Library & Testing Lab: Physical samples of materials with analysis equipment and lifecycle data
  • Open Design Studio: Collaborative space for developing and adapting open-source solutions
  • Ecological Harvest Center: Planning and processing area for sustainable resource extraction
  • Community Artisan Hall: Studios for crafting culturally meaningful, long-lasting objects
  • Resource Coordination Hub: Space for matching projects with community capacities and tools

Material Metabolism Pod

Pod Mandate

To oversee and facilitate the healthy, circular, and equitable flow of materials and energy through the community, ensuring that all production and resourcing activities enhance, rather than deplete, ecological and social capital.

  • Ecological Harvest Guardian (⚒️ Extraction and Harvesting): Manages the sustainable drawing of resources from nature.
  • Circular Fabricator (⚒️ Manufacture and Fabrication): Produces durable goods in closed-loop systems.
  • Open-Source Solutions Designer (⚒️ Design and Innovation): Creates and shares liberating, appropriate technology designs.
  • Community Artisan (⚒️ Art and Craft): Embeds cultural meaning and beauty into material objects.
  • Capacity & Commons Coordinator (⚒️ Human and Physical Resources): Matches community skills with projects and manages shared tools.
  • Community Resilience Steward (⚒️ Prosperity and Resilience): Cultivates robust, adaptive local economies focused on well-being.
Digital Workspace

Material Metabolism Pod Digital Headquarters

  • Production Flow Dashboard: Real-time monitoring of manufacturing and resource flows
  • Design Collaboration Platform: Tools for co-creating and improving open-source designs
  • Resource Matching System: Connects projects with available materials and skills
  • Cultural Integration Hub: Ensures production respects and enhances community values
Physical Resource Kits
  • Circular Fabrication Kit: Modular manufacturing tools, repair equipment, quality testing devices
  • Ecological Harvest Toolkit: Sustainable extraction tools, yield monitoring equipment, regeneration assessment guides
  • Open Design Pack: Prototyping materials, collaboration tools, user feedback systems
  • Artisan Craft Kit: Traditional tools, quality materials, cultural symbolism references
  • Capacity Coordination Set: Skills assessment tools, project matching systems, resource scheduling

"New Resource & Production Proposal" Protocol

Protocol Purpose

To govern the high-stakes decision of whether to introduce a new material, technology, or production process into the community. This is the primary gatekeeping mechanism against "enshittification" and ecological harm, preventing well-intentioned but damaging innovations from destabilizing the system.

Protocol Process
  • Comprehensive Impact Submission: Any proposal for a new resource use or product must be submitted to the Commons, including a full lifecycle analysis, its inputs/outputs, and its planned end-of-life pathway.
  • Multi-Domain Review: The Material Metabolism Pod facilitates a review period where pods from other domains assess the proposal. The Ecology Pod reviews environmental impact, the Culture Pod assesses social and aesthetic fit, and the Ethical Culture Pod scrutinizes its alignment with community values.
  • Community-Wide Deliberation: The Open-Source Solutions Designer and Community Resilience Steward present the proposal and the review feedback in a public assembly, facilitating a discussion focused on long-term impacts (Planning and Vision).
  • Provisional Consent with Sunset Clause: Approved proposals are granted provisional consent for a limited trial period. The Ecological Harvest Guardian and Circular Fabricator establish clear metrics for success and environmental monitoring.
  • Ratification or Sunset Review: At the end of the trial, the proposal is revisited. If it has met its goals without negative consequences, it is fully ratified. If not, it is sunsetted, and the Capacity & Commons Coordinator integrates the lessons learned into the community's knowledge base.

"New Resource & Production Proposal" Protocol Suite

  • Lifecycle Impact Assessment Tool: Comprehensive evaluation of environmental and social impacts
  • Multi-Domain Review Platform: Coordinates feedback from Ecology, Culture, Ethics, and other pods
  • Community Deliberation Facilitator: Tools for organizing public assemblies on production decisions
  • Provisional Consent Manager: Tracks trial periods and conditions for new initiatives
  • Sunset Review System: Manages the decision to fully adopt or discontinue production methods

Production Optimization Toolkit

  • Metabolic Rift Analyzer: Measures gaps between consumption and local regenerative capacity
  • Circularity Metrics Calculator: Tracks percentage of materials from reuse vs virgin extraction
  • Resource Sovereignty Assessment: Evaluates self-sufficiency in critical areas
  • Innovation-Tradition Integrator: Tools for blending new technologies with traditional knowledge

"State of Our Metabolism" Report

An annual, quantitative and qualitative audit that measures the community's success in moving from a linear, extractive economy to a circular, regenerative one.

  • Ecological Harvest Guardian (⚒️ Extraction and Harvesting): Manages the sustainable drawing of resources from nature.
  • Circular Fabricator (⚒️ Manufacture and Fabrication): Produces durable goods in closed-loop systems.
  • Open-Source Solutions Designer (⚒️ Design and Innovation): Creates and shares liberating, appropriate technology designs.
  • Community Artisan (⚒️ Art and Craft): Embeds cultural meaning and beauty into material objects.
  • Capacity & Commons Coordinator (⚒️ Human and Physical Resources): Matches community skills with projects and manages shared tools.
  • Community Resilience Steward (⚒️ Prosperity and Resilience): Cultivates robust, adaptive local economies focused on well-being.

Annual "State of Our Metabolism" Report System

  • Metabolic Rift Index Calculator: Core metric of consumption vs regeneration balance
  • Circularity Dashboard: Data on material flows, product lifespans, and repair rates
  • Innovation & Tradition Spotlight: Features on successful open-source solutions and artisan traditions
  • Resource Sovereignty Assessment: Analysis of self-sufficiency and trade relationships

Technology and Infrastructure

Circles Topics & Roles

🖥️ Appropriateness and Robustness

Appropriate Tech Evaluator: Assesses technologies for their durability, repairability, accessibility, and alignment with ecological and social values.

🖥️ Communications and Information

Decentralized Network Gardener: Maintains resilient, open-source communication infrastructures that are free from corporate or state control.

🖥️ Transport and Movement

Mobility Systems Steward: Plans and maintains multi-modal transit (walking, biking, public transport) that is free/low-cost and minimizes ecological impact.

🖥️ Construction and Building

Ecological Builder: Constructs and retrofits housing and public buildings using natural, local, and non-toxic materials in ways that integrate with the ecosystem.

🖥️ Education and Training

Popular Educator: Facilitates lifelong learning that is free and integrated with social life, focusing on critical thinking, cooperation, and practical skills.

🖥️ Medicine and Health Treatment

Community Health Worker: Provides frontline, holistic healthcare and promotes public health, focusing on prevention and community-wide well-being.

Liberatory Technology Stack & Infrastructure Commons

  • A Registry of Appropriate Technologies, with designs, maintenance guides, and lifecycle assessments for all tools and systems (Appropriateness and Robustness).
  • Open Network Infrastructure governing decentralized Communications and Information platforms, free from corporate control.
  • Public Utility Dashboards for monitoring and managing Transport and Movement, energy grids, and Water and Electricity systems.
  • Modular Blueprints for Construction and Building and public works.
  • Curriculum Repositories for Education and Training on maintaining and understanding the technological commons.
  • Open-Source Medical Datasets and Protocols for Medicine and Health Treatment.

This Commons prevents technological enshittification, vendor lock-in, and planned obsolescence. It is the essential resource for the Appropriate Tech Evaluator to assess new tools, the Decentralized Network Gardener to maintain communications, and the Mobility Systems Steward to optimize transit. It ensures technology serves the community, not the reverse.

About

A unified, open-source repository and management system for all the community's foundational technologies and infrastructures. It treats these systems as public utilities to be stewarded for the common good, not owned for profit.

Digital Hubs

"The Symbiotic Stack"

  • Decentralized Digital Commons: Federated network of community-owned servers with distributed storage and computing
  • Infrastructure Monitoring Dashboard: Real-time tracking of energy grids, water systems, communications networks, and transportation flows
  • Open Source Tool Library: Curated repository of liberating technologies with deployment guides and maintenance protocols
  • Appropriate Technology Selector: Decision-making framework for choosing technologies based on ecological impact and community benefit
  • Infrastructure Lifecycle Manager: Tracks maintenance, upgrades, and decommissioning of all community systems
  • Digital Sovereignty Portal: Tools for community control over data and digital infrastructure
Physical Hubs

"The Techno-Ecological Center"

  • Network Operations Hub: Secure space for maintaining community internet and communication systems
  • Renewable Energy Control Room: Monitoring and management of decentralized energy grids
  • Open Source Fabrication Lab: Makerspace with 3D printers, CNC machines, and electronics workstations
  • Appropriate Technology Workshop: Space for developing and maintaining low-tech solutions
  • Infrastructure Testing Grounds: Outdoor area for piloting new systems and technologies
  • Digital Literacy Dojo: Training space for community technology education

Infrastructure Stewards Pod

Pod Mandate

To ensure the community's technological and infrastructural systems are resilient, liberating, accessible, and aligned with ecological and social values. They are the guardians and gardeners of the built and digital environment.

  • Appropriate Tech Evaluator (🖥️ Appropriateness and Robustness): Assesses technologies for durability and alignment with values.
  • Decentralized Network Gardener (🖥️ Communications and Information): Maintains resilient, open-source communication infrastructures.
  • Mobility Systems Steward (🖥️ Transport and Movement): Plans and maintains multi-modal, low-impact transit systems.
  • Ecological Builder (🖥️ Construction and Building): Constructs using natural, non-toxic materials in harmony with the ecosystem.
  • Popular Educator (🖥️ Education and Training): Facilitates lifelong learning about technology and infrastructure.
  • Community Health Worker (🖥️ Medicine and Health Treatment): Provides frontline, holistic healthcare and promotes public health.
Digital Workspace

Infrastructure Stewards Pod Digital Headquarters

  • System Integration Dashboard: Real-time monitoring of all interconnected infrastructure
  • Maintenance Coordination Platform: Schedules and tracks upkeep across all systems
  • Technology Assessment Hub: Central repository for technology evaluations and decisions
  • Digital Sovereignty Tools: Systems for protecting community data and network independence
Physical Resource Kits
  • Network Deployment Kit: Mesh networking equipment, setup tools, troubleshooting guides
  • Renewable Energy Maintenance Pack: Solar panel repair tools, battery testing equipment, grid monitoring devices
  • Open Source Fabrication Toolkit: 3D printing materials, electronics components, repair manuals
  • Infrastructure Assessment Kit: Testing equipment, measurement tools, safety gear
  • Digital Literacy Resources: Training materials, accessible technology guides, privacy tools

"Technology Adoption & Impact" Protocol

Protocol Purpose

To govern the high-stakes process of adopting any new significant technology or infrastructure project (e.g., a new network protocol, energy source, or construction technique). This is the primary defense against technologies that create dependency, centralize power, waste resources, or have hidden social costs.

Protocol Process
  • Proposal & Preliminary Assessment: The Appropriate Tech Evaluator leads a preliminary review of the proposed technology against core criteria: repairability, energy use, resource footprint, data governance, and freedom from coercive design.
  • Multi-Domain "Future-Casting" Session: The Infrastructure Stewards Pod facilitates a session where members role-play the long-term impacts (Medicine and Health Treatment, Education and Training, social equity, ecology) of the technology 10 and 50 years into the future.
  • Community-Wide Deliberation: Findings from the assessment and future-casting are presented in an accessible format by the Popular Educator. The Decentralized Network Gardener ensures broad, inclusive discussion.
  • Provisional Pilot with Sunset Clause: Approved technologies are adopted on a small-scale, time-bound pilot basis. The Ecological Builder and Mobility Systems Steward monitor its real-world performance against promised benefits.
  • Ratification, Redesign, or Rejection: Based on pilot data, the community decides to fully ratify, redesign, or reject the technology. All learnings are documented in the Commons by the Community Health Worker to inform future decisions.

"Technology Adoption & Impact Assessment" Protocol Suite

  • Technology Lifecycle Assessment Tool: Evaluates environmental and social impacts from creation to disposal
  • Community Benefit Analyzer: Framework for assessing how technologies serve community needs
  • Infrastructure Resilience Tester: Stress-testing tools for system failures and recovery scenarios
  • Digital Commons Governance Engine: Manages community decision-making about technology choices
  • Maintenance & Obsolescence Planner: Schedules upkeep and plans for technology phase-outs

Infrastructure Optimization Toolkit

  • Energy-Water-Data Nexus Optimizer: Integrated management of interconnected systems
  • Modular Design Selector: Tools for choosing interoperable, repairable systems
  • Technology Stack Integrator: Ensures different systems work together harmoniously
  • Failure Mode Library: Database of potential system failures and prevention strategies

"Infrastructure Vitality & Liberation" Report

  • Description: An annual assessment that measures the health, resilience, and liberating capacity of the community's technological and infrastructural bones and nervous systems.
  • Appropriate Tech Evaluator (🖥️ Appropriateness and Robustness): Assesses technologies for durability and alignment with values.
  • Decentralized Network Gardener (🖥️ Communications and Information): Maintains resilient, open-source communication infrastructures.
  • Mobility Systems Steward (🖥️ Transport and Movement): Plans and maintains multi-modal, low-impact transit systems.
  • Ecological Builder (🖥️ Construction and Building): Constructs using natural, non-toxic materials in harmony with the ecosystem.
  • Popular Educator (🖥️ Education and Training): Facilitates lifelong learning about technology and infrastructure.
  • Community Health Worker (🖥️ Medicine and Health Treatment): Provides frontline, holistic healthcare and promotes public health.

Annual "State of Our Infrastructure" Report System

  • Resilience Index Calculator: Composite metric of system reliability, redundancy, and recovery capacity
  • Technology Sovereignty Assessment: Measures community control over critical systems
  • Infrastructure Interdependence Map: Visualizes how different systems depend on each other
  • Open Source Contribution Tracker: Documents community improvements to shared technologies

Wealth and Distribution

Circles Topics & Roles

💸 Accumulation and Mobilization

Surplus Mobilizer: Manages the community's collective surplus, directing it towards productive investments in future resilience and shared prosperity.

💸 Social Wealth and Heritage

Commons Archivist: Protects and curates the community's shared cultural and material inheritance, ensuring it is enhanced for future generations.

💸 Wages and Income

Universal Provisioner: Distributes the means of livelihood (e.g., via resource credits or universal basic services) unconditionally to all community members.

💸 Housing and Subsistence

Housing Guarantor: Ensures high-quality, dignified housing is available to all as a human right, managed as a social good rather than a commodity.

💸 Equity and Inclusion

Wealth Disparity Monitor: Tracks distributions of wealth and power within the community and proposes corrective measures to prevent harmful inequality.

💸 Re-distribution and Apportionment

Participatory Budgeting Facilitator: Guides the democratic process where the community decides how to allocate its shared resources for the common good.

Social Wealth Ledger

  • A "Collective Asset Registry" inventorying all shared resources: land, infrastructure, energy systems, and cultural heritage (Social Wealth and Heritage).
  • The "Commons Fund" Dashboard, showing real-time status of collective resources for Re-distribution and Apportionment.
  • "Livelihood Accounts" that track universal provisions and access to resources for Housing and Subsistence, rather than personal Wages and Income accumulation.
  • "Wealth & Equity Impact" Models that simulate how decisions affect distribution, monitored by the Wealth Disparity Monitor.
  • A registry of "Mobilization Projects" showing how accumulated surplus is being deployed for the common good.

This Commons makes the concept of "wealth" a public, democratic concern, not a private secret. It prevents the hidden Accumulation and Mobilization of power and ensures that the community's wealth is consciously directed toward Equity and Inclusion. It is the primary tool for every role in this subdomain to perform their function with full transparency.

About

A transparent, real-time accounting system that makes the community's complete material and social wealth visible and manageable by all. It is the definitive source of truth for what the community owns and how it flows.

Digital Hubs

"The Commonwealth Ledger"

  • Multi-Dimensional Wealth Dashboard: Tracks financial, social, ecological, and cultural capital flows
  • Universal Basic Services Calculator: Dynamic system for ensuring all members' fundamental needs are met
  • Wealth Circulation Monitor: Real-time visualization of resource distribution and velocity through the community
  • Intergenerational Wealth Bridge: Tools for managing inheritance, legacy, and long-term resource stewardship
  • Contribution Recognition System: Non-monetary acknowledgment of value creation across all domains
  • Surplus Redistribution Engine: Automated systems for identifying and redirecting excess resources
Physical Hubs

"The Abundance Commons"

  • Wealth Distribution Hall: Transparent space for community resource allocation decisions
  • Universal Services Access Point: One-stop location for accessing basic services and support
  • Wealth Circulation Exchange: Physical location for resource sharing, skill trading, and mutual aid coordination
  • Intergenerational Learning Center: Space for wealth wisdom transmission between generations
  • Surplus Redistribution Station: Beautifully designed space for receiving and redistributing excess resources
  • Wealth Healing Chambers: Spaces for addressing historical wealth trauma and inequality patterns

Stewards of the Commons Pod

Pod Mandate

To ensure the community's collective wealth is recognized, nurtured, and distributed in a way that guarantees dignified livelihoods for all, prevents harmful inequality, and builds long-term resilience for the common good.

  • Surplus Mobilizer (💸 Accumulation and Mobilization): Manages the community's collective surplus for productive investments.
  • Commons Archivist (💸 Social Wealth and Heritage): Protects and curates the community's shared cultural and material inheritance.
  • Universal Provisioner (💸 Wages and Income): Distributes the means of livelihood unconditionally to all.
  • Housing Guarantor (💸 Housing and Subsistence): Ensures housing is available to all as a human right.
  • Wealth Disparity Monitor (💸 Equity and Inclusion): Tracks distributions of wealth and power to prevent harmful inequality.
  • Participatory Budgeting Facilitator (💸 Re-distribution and Apportionment): Guides the democratic process for allocating shared resources.
Digital Workspace

Wealth Stewards Pod Digital Headquarters

  • Multi-Capital Dashboard: Integrated view of all wealth forms and their distribution
  • Wealth Flow Optimizer: Tools for ensuring resources circulate effectively through the community
  • Universal Services Coordinator: Manages access to basic necessities for all members
  • Wealth Justice Mediation Platform: Space for addressing distribution conflicts and historical inequities
Physical Resource Kits
  • Wealth Distribution Kit: Allocation tools, fairness frameworks, participatory budgeting materials
  • Universal Services Access Pack: Needs assessment tools, service coordination guides, access barrier removers
  • Wealth Circulation Toolkit: Mutual aid coordination, resource sharing systems, gift economy supports
  • Intergenerational Wealth Bridge Kit: Legacy planning tools, wisdom transmission methods, inheritance frameworks
  • Wealth Healing Resources: Trauma-informed wealth practices, historical equity repair tools

"Participatory Budgeting & Apportionment" Protocol

Protocol Purpose

To manage the most high-stakes and potentially conflict-ridden process in the community: deciding how to spend the collective surplus (the Commons Fund). This is where the community's values are materially tested, and where competition for resources can threaten social accord.

Protocol Process
  • Transparent State of the Commonwealth: The Surplus Mobilizer and Wealth Disparity Monitor begin by publishing a clear report on the Commons Fund status and a needs assessment based on data from the Social Wealth Ledger.
  • Community Proposal Generation: Any member or pod can submit a funding proposal for a project or need, which is made public in the Commons.
  • Deliberative Assemblies: The Participatory Budgeting Facilitator organizes a series of themed assemblies where proposals are presented, debated, and refined, with the Commons Archivist providing historical context.
  • Iterative Voting & Allocation Rounds: Using a method like quadratic voting to prioritize community-wide benefit over narrow interests, members allocate virtual "community funds" to the proposals. The Universal Provisioner ensures all basic provisioning needs are met before discretionary projects are funded.
  • Ratification & Mandate: The final budget, reflecting the community's collective priorities, is formally ratified. The Housing Guarantor and other role-bearers then receive a clear mandate and resources to execute their part of the plan.

"Wealth Justice & Redistribution" Protocol Suite

  • Wealth Imbalance Detection System: Algorithms for identifying unsustainable accumulation or deprivation
  • Restorative Wealth Transfer Framework: Structured processes for addressing historical inequities
  • Universal Access Guarantee System: Ensures all members have access to basic necessities
  • Wealth Cap Management Tools: Systems for preventing extreme wealth concentration
  • Community Dividend Calculator: Determines fair distribution of communal surplus

Multi-Capital Accounting Toolkit

  • Ecological Wealth Tracker: Measures and values natural capital and ecosystem services
  • Social Capital Mapper: Visualizes relationship networks and community trust assets
  • Cultural Wealth Inventory: Documents and values traditional knowledge and cultural heritage
  • Regenerative Investment Analyzer: Evaluates how wealth investments enhance multiple forms of capital

"Annual State of Our Commonwealth" Report

  • Description: The ultimate report card on the community's economic health and justice, reframing "wealth" as the well-being of the whole and the sustainability of its resources.
  • Surplus Mobilizer (💸 Accumulation and Mobilization): Manages the community's collective surplus for productive investments.
  • Commons Archivist (💸 Social Wealth and Heritage): Protects and curates the community's shared cultural and material inheritance.
  • Universal Provisioner (💸 Wages and Income): Distributes the means of livelihood unconditionally to all.
  • Housing Guarantor (💸 Housing and Subsistence): Ensures housing is available to all as a human right.
  • Wealth Disparity Monitor (💸 Equity and Inclusion): Tracks distributions of wealth and power to prevent harmful inequality.
  • Participatory Budgeting Facilitator (💸 Re-distribution and Apportionment): Guides the democratic process for allocating shared resources.

Annual "State of Our Commonwealth" Report System

  • Multi-Dimensional Wealth Index: Composite metric of financial, social, ecological, and cultural wealth
  • Distribution Equity Analysis: Detailed visualization of resource flow fairness across demographics
  • Wealth Regeneration Stories: Curated narratives of wealth being used to create more wealth for all
  • Universal Services Access Report: Tracks how well basic needs are being met for all community members