Working draft
The Aims of Centricity
What it is for, and how firmly each aim is held.
Working draft by Devon Summerhayes. Not a decision of any community.
The purpose, from the Vision: a united and collaborative world in harmony with one another, nature, the planet and the cosmos. Unity means what people are in when they share, not something anyone is asked to believe or join. Each aim below is marked with its status, so it is clear what is one person's view, what a pilot has shown and what a community has agreed.
People
Aims. A secure home, enough to eat, care when it is needed, a real say in what affects you, and time for what matters.
Status. Founder's aims. Pilots can test parts of them, and a pilot's participants would decide what they adopt. A shared fund on its own can carry only a thin floor; a floor of housing, healthcare and care for everyone would be public, paid for by tax and decided by vote, as the NHS is. Centricity argues for that principle, and for land value as the fair way to pay for it, without becoming a party.
The planet
Aims. Living within what nature can sustain, with harm to nature repaired first.
Status. Founder's aim. A pilot can test only its own use, since wider limits need larger scales.
The world
Aims. A world that needs no weapons of war, and fair movement of people, with anyone free to leave and to ask to join another community.
Status. Founder's long-term aims. The first steps are security forces that act only in defence under civilian control, and published procurement. These are not matters for a small pilot.
How we get there
Aims. Small pilots, by choice, with goals and measures published in advance, independent review, and testing in public. Nobody is required to join.
Status. Founder's method, proposed for pilots. A pilot's participants would accept, change or reject it.
Foundations that no vote overrides
Aims. Dignity, free speech, privacy, a fair process, protection from abuse, and the freedom to leave.
Status. Founder's starting commitments, held as foundations and not as decisions. They are set out so people can examine them.
What this means
Until a community exists, these are the founder's aims. An aim a pilot has met on a published measure is marked Shown, with the date and the measure. Once there are members, their own process would adopt, amend or reject them, and only then would an aim be marked Decided, with the date and how it was decided.
The labels are Founder's aim, Proposed for pilots, Shown and Decided, so a pilot's result and a community's decision never share a label.