Capital
Direct funding of undertakings, territories or citizens in need.
Generosity is measured, honoured, and never converted into power
A citizen can give money, time, knowledge, compute, goods or service. All of it is recorded, all of it is traceable to an outcome, and all of it advances standing in impact. None of it buys a vote, an office or authority over another person.
Registry 3,341–3,620. Giving and infinite progression.
Philanthropy has always bought power. Here it cannot.
Generosity should be honoured loudly and separated absolutely from the authority to decide things for other people.
- Giving buys impact standing. It never buys governance authority.
- No donation is anonymous to the ledger, even when it is anonymous to the public.
- Every gift resolves to a named outcome, or it is returned.
- Impact standing decays if the outcome it was granted for is later found false.
- No citizen is ranked above another for wealth given rather than value delivered.
Money is the least interesting thing you can give
Six forms of contribution, each measured in its own unit, each carrying the same standing per unit of verified outcome.
Time
Hours worked on undertakings that pay nothing and matter anyway.
Knowledge
Teaching, mentorship, documentation, translation, review.
Compute
Intelligence and infrastructure capacity donated to the commons.
Goods
Physical and digital assets transferred into the civilization's use.
Service
Professional capability given to citizens who could not otherwise buy it.
Six links from intent to permanent record
A gift that cannot be traced to an outcome is not a gift, it is a transfer. Every link below is public.
- Intent
A gift is declared against a named undertaking, territory or citizen.
- Custody
Value moves into a published account, not into a private discretion.
- Deployment
It is spent against the stated purpose, itemised.
- Outcome
The result is verified by citizens with standing in that territory.
- Attribution
Impact standing is issued to the giver, permanently and non-transferably.
- Record
The whole chain stays public and inspectable, forever.
There is no state here called finished
Impact is its own track. Above every finite ladder sits prestige, legacy and an account level that does not end.
- Impact levels
- A track of its own, separate from economic level. It measures what changed for other people, not what left your account.
- Prestige
- At the ceiling of a track, a citizen may reset it — trading the number for a permanent mark on the record and a harder ladder.
- Legacy
- What survives the citizen: works, institutions, students, capabilities. It never resets and never decays.
- Ascension
- The infinite account level. It begins where every finite track ends, so there is no state in this civilization called finished.