Compare two futures
Who governs, who benefits, and which terms remain open?
Compare any two entries. Their differences are editorial descriptions, not distances on a common scale.
Life and institutions
Material provision need not depend on owning scarce productive assets. Political disputes shift toward allocation, participation and how different ways of life share common resources.
Imagine work, care and invention organized through contracts among beings with very different capabilities. Access to productive resources becomes a central political question.
Practical authority
The source premise does not settle the final governing institution.
Distributed owners and institutions; human final control is not assured.
Benefits and costs
A material floor independent of private productive wealth. Collective allocation can constrain private projects; disagreements over contribution persist.
Many ways of living and producing may coexist. Unequal bargaining power can make formally voluntary contracts hard to refuse.
Practical human governing authorityDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether humans retain practical final governing authority.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Different kinds of owners coexist; the project leaves their relative governing authority open.
Revisable governing mandates
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people can effectively replace governing mandates.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people can effectively replace governing mandates.
A practical right to leave
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people have a usable right to leave.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people have a usable right to leave.
Several self-governing communities
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether several communities govern themselves.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether several communities govern themselves.
A guaranteed material floorDifferent or incomplete terms
Material provision is guaranteed broadly
Linked source premise. The linked Egalitarian Utopia premise expressly includes guaranteed income.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether everyone receives a guaranteed material floor.
Private ownership of productive resourcesExplicit difference
Production is organized without private ownership
Linked source premise. The linked premise abolishes property; productive ownership is included in that abolition.
Private ownership organizes production
Linked source premise. The linked Libertarian Utopia premise makes property rights central to coexistence.
Continuing biological humanity
Biological humanity continues
Linked source premise. The linked premise includes biological humans in the continuing society.
Biological humanity continues
Linked source premise. The linked premise includes biological humans alongside other beings.
Others’ choice to transform themselves
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether feasible substantial transformation is legally permitted.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether feasible substantial transformation is legally permitted.
Standing for artificial personsDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether artificial persons have institutional standing.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Coexistence and property rights do not settle shared political standing for artificial persons.
Enforced limits on selected capabilities
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether institutions enforce a ceiling on selected capabilities.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether institutions enforce a ceiling on selected capabilities.
Visible exercise of governing powerDifferent or incomplete terms
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The project leaves the governing arrangement, including the visibility of its power, open.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people know who exercises governing power.
Practical independence from a technical provider
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Common provisioning does not determine whether infrastructure has practical alternatives.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Contractual exchange can sustain independent providers or concentrated dependencies; neither is guaranteed.
Open questions
Practical human control, exit and rights for artificial persons.
Exit enforcement, equal political standing and remedies for extreme dependency.
These are authored descriptors. An unresolved feature is not evidence of a guarantee, a conflict or equivalence. Consult Egalitarian Utopia sources or Libertarian Utopia sources.