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Section 13

Failure modes and resilience

How this breaks, and how it recovers when it does.

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LifeSystems is a proposal for how society could work once AI and robots do about 99% of the jobs, leaving most people without employment through no fault of their own.

  • A basic income for everyone. Every eligible adult gets a tax-free monthly payment (UBI), job or no job. You can turn it off and back on whenever you like.
  • Living packages from co-ops. Worker-owned cooperatives compete to offer affordable bundles of housing, food, healthcare and more, paid for with that income.
  • Freedom stays. You can keep your home, run a business, earn more, or skip the whole system. It's a floor, not a ceiling.
  • Funded by land. Mainly through a tax on land value, the one resource machines can't make more of.

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Your turn

Be the adversary. What's the failure mode nobody listed here?

  1. The central political concern is diversion or suspension of by elected officials. The plan treats that as a major systemic risk, but also distinguishes fiscal insufficiency, infrastructure outages, inadequate housing supply, and . The design objective is and rapid recovery, not an impossible guarantee that nothing ever goes wrong.

    §13.1

  2. Protect payment rights with constitutional and statutory safeguards, auditable ledgers, and independent administration.

    §13.2

  3. Maintain , redundant payment rails, and temporary essential-service guarantees during disruptions.

    §13.3

  4. Require that protect residents if a fails; protect service continuity rather than automatically rescuing management.

    §13.4

  5. Diversify AI models, compute, energy, supply chains, and critical physical infrastructure.

    §13.5

  6. Maintain accessible grievance procedures, competition enforcement, and fair provider-switching rules.

    §13.6