Beyond Employment: Direct Production Coordination
The entire employment relationship exists to enable extraction. We eliminate the middleman by directly connecting people who need things with people who can provide them.
Organizational Models
Mutual aid networks operate through time banks and skill sharing. Commons-based production uses community workshops and tool libraries. Worker cooperatives have those doing the work making decisions. Gift economies create and share from abundance. Community land trusts provide collective land ownership. Open source and peer production share knowledge and tools freely.
Infrastructure Support
Public digital platforms match needs to abilities. Community land is available for productive use. Public banks provide capital. Shared workshop spaces and equipment are accessible. Legal structures are made simple and default.
Universal Basic Services
When housing, healthcare, food, education, utilities, and transportation are provided as universal basic services, people are freed from survival necessity. Work becomes chosen engagement rather than coerced labor. People can contribute to production and community without requiring employment to survive.
Universal Basic Income
Beyond universal basic services, universal basic income provides enough to live comfortably, not just survive. This is funded by automation and AI productivity taxes. People engage in productive activity by choice, not survival necessity.
The Transformation
This fundamentally changes the relationship between work and survival. People produce and contribute because they want to, not because they’ll starve otherwise. The capitalist middleman extracting rent for “coordinating” production becomes unnecessary. Direct coordination between needs and abilities becomes possible.
Integration With Full Platform
Worker cooperatives provide the structure for those who want formal business organization. Universal basic services eliminate survival desperation. Universal basic income provides baseline security. Public infrastructure supports productive activity. Anti-monopoly enforcement prevents re-concentration of extractive power.
This is the foundation for a society where human need directly connects to human ability without extraction.