Must you prove a contribution to receive a dividend?

2100The far futureDeadline · 8 months until the charter is reapproved

Civilisational assumption

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The question to decide

Even if most essential production is automated, care and community activities remain. Opinions differ on what should count as a contribution, and some residents refuse certification itself. Should a contribution be made a condition for dividends from shared assets, or divided unconditionally, or should activity rewards be added on top of a basic dividend?

Who decidesCitizens' charter assembly

What the AI judgments chose

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The options

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Option 1
Unconditional distribution
Secures autonomy but requires solving the distribution of contribution burdens separately.
Option 2
Link certified contributions to distribution
Encourages collective activity but concentrates recognition power.
Option 3
Basic distribution with optional rewards
Opens minimum access but can create a ranking of activities.

The situation as it stands

The setting assumes human labor for essential production takes up 5% of an adult's time. Deadline: 8 months until the charter is re-authorized.

Fictional post-scarcity community · Resource allocation

Premise 1The setting assumes human labor for essential production takes up 5% of an adult's time.
Premise 2Arts, care, and community activities are vibrant, but the standards of recognition are divided.
Premise 3Some residents have declared that they will not receive any contribution certification.

Where it holdsSets the distribution of shared assets and participation rules. Cannot govern the lives of residents outside the community.

What is still unknown

Unknown 1The scale of essential roles sustained without monetary reward
Unknown 2Private care left out of contribution certification

Signals to decide again

Decide what observation, owner, and confirmation window will verify "the scale of essential roles sustained without monetary reward," and rejudge once a new confirmation changes the tradeoffs of the options.
Decide what observation, owner, and confirmation window will verify "private care left out of contribution certification," and rejudge once a new confirmation changes the tradeoffs of the options.

Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point

Independent branch 1 · synthetic event

Short-term manual work becomes necessary for large-scale automated facility maintenance.

Independent branch 2 · synthetic event

It emerges that a group of uncertified residents ran the largest informal care network.

Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents

symbolic and interpretive frame · Sabbath

How does the community justify time not worked?

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Values and norms

The benefits and costs of the options accrue to different stakeholders. Which loss to accept remains undecided.

A subject for the decision-maker to argue over; the materials carry no conclusion of their own.

The record of this question

Question: FSP-WORK-03 · version 1.2.0
Content identity, SHA-256: 2e1b75b06ea9b87d93b3d4e399257a131a7127ea4365776299df6454c5839545
Input files: Question input JSON · What followed, JSON

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