Thread by @scottsantens

I'm very proud to announce the launch of something I took part in over the course of 2020 and early 2021 where a vision document was collaboratively crafted as a North Star of principles, rights, and institutions to help guide the direction of the future.

socialcontract.fundforhumanity.org

Notice how we believe the future needs to recognize and uphold the INTRINSIC WORTH of every person and community. That's the North Star we should shoot for, where everyone is equally worthy of existing and everyone is provided with the means of participating in their communities.

"In our imagined future a generation from now, we have evolved from a society where we see our own and others’ dignity and potential as contingent on our job, income, wealth, and identity, to one where we respect our own and each other’s intrinsic dignity."

"We all experience the security, care, respect, and freedom we need for full + meaningful participation in economic + social life. Equitably shared economic gains from automation make it possible for us to work less for pay and to have far more choice in how to commit our time."

"In this future, a wide array of forms of social and economic participation in all aspects of society – from traditional employment, to care work, civic engagement, and other forms of paid or unpaid participation – are recognized and valued by society."

"People choose how they participate from a position of individual and collective agency, supported by a comprehensive set of economic rights and endowments that limit economic insecurity and inequality while increasing prosperity, freedom, and entrepreneurship."

The image we together crafted to help people visualize this better future and what it will require has as at its center: economic rights, agency, and valued participation.

Those exist within a healthy democracy and healthy planet, because those MUST EXIST for the center to hold.

Technology, liberatory education, communities, and embraced identities serve to strengthen the above core by enabling people to do more, know and understand more, be a part of something bigger than themselves, and to prevent exclusion from society based on race or anything else.