Chapter 1: The Individual — Companion Notes
Purpose without paycheck panic, and Frontiers that stay inspiring.
Read these next
- Musk’s Universal High Income: the distinction between UBI (survival) and UHI (abundance)—and why neither solves the meaning problem.
- Purpose Beyond Survival: the psychology of striving when survival is guaranteed.
- Merit Decay Curves: why influence must fade and how to calibrate the half-life.
Try this
- Host an “Infinite Game” session: pick one lifelong quest (art, science, care) and define how it’s validated without money.
- Build a Purpose Infrastructure map: education, mental health, and civic participation available to everyone by default.
- Prototype Merit decay messaging so ambition stays fresh, not exhausting.
- Draft your personal “Baseline checklist” (housing, food, care, compute) and identify what can be automated/shared today.
Key concepts explored
- The Two-Layer Solution: Freedom FROM (Baseline) and Freedom TO (Frontier).
- Merit System: Non-transferable, decaying credits earned through validated contribution.
- The Diversity Guard: Cross-community validation that prevents any single group from defining “value.”
- Infinite Games: Competition to keep playing, not to win and stop.
Coming soon
- Frontier quest catalogs and social validation patterns for non-monetary contribution.
- Mental health and purpose-support patterns tailored to post-work life.