Blueprint v2.0 is open for input — help shape v3.0
The economy exists to support life.Help us design one that does.
Picture a world where AI and robotics do 99% of the work, and 99% of people are unemployed. Not because they failed, but because machines do the jobs. What happens to rent, food, healthcare, and purpose when a paycheck is no longer how most people survive? LifeSystems is an open blueprint for that world, one where no one has to earn the right to a home, food, or a future. It isn't finished. It shouldn't be written by one person. Read it piece by piece, tell us what's wrong, what's missing, and what's worth fighting for.
The starting assumption
Everything here rests on one premise. Do you buy it?
Before debating the solution, test the problem. If the assumption is wrong, too early, or too extreme, the whole plan has to change, so tell us.
- Artificial intelligence and robotics perform approximately 99% of economically necessary work: food, construction, energy, transportation, logistics, healthcare, education support, and administration.Agree? Disagree? Comment →
- As a result, about 99% of people are unemployed. Not because they failed, but because machines do the jobs.Agree? Disagree? Comment →
- Automated production makes basic goods and services dramatically cheaper. Costs approaching zero is a long-term scenario, not an established fact.Agree? Disagree? Comment →
- In that world, a paycheck can no longer be how most people survive. Basic survival has to be decoupled from employment.Agree? Disagree? Comment →
Why your voice matters
Big ideas fail in the details. You know details we don't.
A renter knows where a housing guarantee breaks. A nurse knows what “continuity of care” really takes. An economist can check whether land taxes cover the bill. A skeptic can find the loophole a future politician would use.
Every one of those perspectives makes this plan stronger. You don't need credentials — just honesty and a willingness to help. The best comments here will be credited and folded into Version 3.0.
How to help
96 pieces. Each one is an open conversation.
Read a piece
The blueprint is broken into small, specific claims — a principle, a clause, a single rule. No account needed to read anything, including every comment.
Add your thinking
Join with an alias and a verified email. Then suggest a rewrite, raise a concern, ask a question, add evidence, or back what works.
Build on each other
Reply to others, refine ideas together, and mark the most helpful contributions so the strongest thinking rises to the top.
Five ways to contribute
Propose a rewrite, an addition, or a better mechanism.
Point out a risk, loophole, or someone this leaves behind.
Ask what this means, or what happens in a specific case.
Share research, data, a pilot, or lived experience.
Say why this part matters and should stay.
Not sure where to start?
The questions we can't answer alone
What is the baseline UBI amount, and how is its purchasing power indexed?
See the current answer and improve it →
Who qualifies: citizens, permanent residents, other residents, and at what age?
See the current answer and improve it →
What is the verified sustainable revenue from taxable land after grandfathering homeowners?
See the current answer and improve it →
How are costs allocated among individual adults, couples, children, and people with high support needs?
See the current answer and improve it →
The full blueprint
18 sections. Jump in anywhere.
- ◇The starting assumptionThe premise everything else rests on. If this is wrong, the plan needs to change.4 pieces
- ◆Executive summaryThe whole idea in two paragraphs.2 pieces
- 1Foundational principlesThe ten commitments everything else is built on.10 pieces
- 2Assumed technological environmentWhat the world has to look like for this to work.2 pieces
- 3UBI: entitlement, opt-out, and reentryWho gets the dividend, how to step away from it, and how to come back.6 pieces
- 4LifeSystems subscription marketplaceCompeting cooperatives offering living packages — and how different people would use them.7 pieces
- 5Worker ownership and democratic governanceHow cooperatives are run, and how AI informs — but doesn't replace — human decisions.8 pieces
- 6Housing, renters, homelessness, and property rightsA home without a job — and what happens to homes people already own.3 pieces
- 7Land, scarcity, and taxationThe one resource robots can't make more of — and how it might fund the floor.3 pieces
- 8Individual economic freedom and parallel lifestylesA floor, not a ceiling.1 pieces
- 9Personal AI, health, purpose, and social developmentAI that helps people flourish — without watching or steering them.6 pieces
- 10Public institutions and constitutional protectionMaking the floor hard to pull out from under people.2 pieces
- 11Draft constitutional amendmentDiscussion text — six sections, every word up for debate.7 pieces
- 12Expected benefits and limitsWhat we hope happens — with the honest fine print.10 pieces
- 13Failure modes and resilienceHow this breaks, and how it recovers when it does.6 pieces
- 14Phased transition roadmapFrom here to there, in six stages.6 pieces
- 15Questions to resolve in Version 3.0The questions we can't answer alone. Start here.10 pieces
- 16One-page policy summaryThe elevator pitch.3 pieces
Community guidelines
How we disagree well
Critique ideas, not people.
Challenge anything in the blueprint. Respect everyone in the room.
Steelman first.
Show you understand a point before you argue against it.
Be specific.
“This fails renters in high-cost cities because…” beats “this won’t work.”
Bring evidence when you can.
Studies, pilots, numbers, and lived experience all count.
Offer a better version.
The most useful criticism comes with a proposed fix.
Assume good faith.
Everyone here showed up to make something better.
The future isn't something that happens to us.It's something we draft together.
Pick one piece. Leave one thought. That's how Version 3.0 gets written.