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
Imagine work, care and invention organized through contracts among beings with very different capabilities. Access to productive resources becomes a central political question.
Public institutions can still make laws, but access to work and essential services runs through a handful of providers. Switching vendor may leave the underlying dependency intact.
Practical authority
Distributed owners and institutions; human final control is not assured.
Formal human institutions coexist with concentrated private technical power.
Benefits and costs
Many ways of living and producing may coexist. Unequal bargaining power can make formally voluntary contracts hard to refuse.
Large providers can coordinate complex infrastructure and investment. Exclusion, weak exit options and private influence over public decisions.
Practical human governing authority
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Different kinds of owners coexist; the project leaves their relative governing authority open.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Human final authority depends on the internal constitution; it is not guaranteed throughout this arrangement.
Revisable governing mandatesDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people can effectively replace governing mandates.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The power to replace governing mandates depends on the institutional settlement; it is not guaranteed.
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 floor
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether everyone receives a guaranteed material floor.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether everyone receives a guaranteed material floor.
Private ownership of productive resources
Private ownership organizes production
Linked source premise. The linked Libertarian Utopia premise makes property rights central to coexistence.
Private ownership organizes production
Additional project hypothetical. The authored infrastructure is controlled by private firms or alliances.
Continuing biological humanity
Biological humanity continues
Linked source premise. The linked premise includes biological humans alongside other beings.
Biological humanity continues
Additional project hypothetical. The authored world retains biological humans using its services.
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
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Coexistence and property rights do not settle shared political standing for artificial persons.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether artificial persons have institutional standing.
Enforced limits on selected capabilitiesDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether institutions enforce a ceiling on selected capabilities.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Capability restrictions depend on the governing settlement; no uniform ceiling or absence of a ceiling is guaranteed.
Visible exercise of governing powerDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people know who exercises governing power.
People know who exercises governing power
Project editorial inference. The project describes identifiable firms and human institutions exercising power, without claiming that all influence is disclosed.
Practical independence from a technical providerDifferent or incomplete terms
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Contractual exchange can sustain independent providers or concentrated dependencies; neither is guaranteed.
Life depends on an indispensable technical provider
Project editorial inference. The authored infrastructure is indispensable, and changing vendors leaves the dependency intact; there is no practical provider-independent operation.
Open questions
Exit enforcement, equal political standing and remedies for extreme dependency.
How much formal government can actually compel the providers to do.
These are authored descriptors. An unresolved feature is not evidence of a guarantee, a conflict or equivalence. Consult Libertarian Utopia sources or Compute Oligarchy sources.