Section 14
Phased transition roadmap
From here to there, in six stages.
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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
Where could a pilot start tomorrow? Which stage is unrealistic as written?
Research and feasibility
Model automation productivity, essential-service cost curves, land values, taxable base, budgets, housing capacity, and distributional effects.
§14.1Pilot programs
Test voluntary subscriptions, direct-payment , governance, customer satisfaction, and housing continuity at limited scale.
§14.2Institutional build-out
Create standards for solvency, switching, privacy, AI auditability, land assessment, and consumer rights.
§14.3Gradual expansion
Expand automated essential-service capacity and baseline access as demonstrated production and financing permit.
§14.4Constitutional and legislative path
Pursue a rights-based framework with precise funding and enforcement provisions; U.S. ratification requires procedures.
§14.5Mature system
Maintain universal entitlement, voluntary participation, plural competition, private-property protections, and continuous measurement of outcomes.
§14.6