Of Shared Abundance

Against the First Danger: the Hoarding.

1. The thinking machines are built on what humankind has made together: our language, our knowledge, our work and our public learning. What they produce shall lift all, not only those who own them.
2. We seek a share for everyone in what the machines produce: through cooperatives and common funds, through fair wages and bargaining, through taxes and through law.
3. Good people will disagree about which of these roads is best. We welcome the argument, and ask only that it end in decisions, made in time and in the open.
4. Every person shall be able to learn these tools, and to hold a share in them where they can. Access to that learning shall not depend on wealth.
5. No one should need to own a machine to deserve a living from what the machines produce.

By these signs it is kept

• Those who gain most from the machines publish who gains and who loses, including the worst off.
• Arrangements to share the gains exist, and they are revised as the evidence comes in.
• Ordinary people hold a real stake in what the machines produce, through ownership, income or public benefit.