Scarcity and the floor

Resources are finite. Bodies are many. The structure does not pretend otherwise.

Two things carry the allocation. Above the floor, coupling-capacity projection — what an intervention preserves downstream. That reads the corridor the intervention can restore — never the person’s standing, relationships or usefulness to others.

Below that is the dignity-floor. The minimum every body is held at for its corridor to be a corridor at all. Pain relief. Food. Shelter. Presence. Care for the closing. Not sentiment. The shared room is not widened by any allocation that pushes one of its own bodies below the level at which that body can still read itself. To do so is parasitic. The structure narrowing one of its own architectures below the point where it remains one.

Projection reads above the floor. The floor does not move.

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

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