Of the Floor

Against the Fourth Danger: the fate of the Abandoned.

1. Displacement is not a personal failure. No one shall be blamed for work the machines have taken.
2. Those who profit most from the machines owe the most to those they displace.
3. Employers, owners and governments shall build the floor before they take away the ground: warning before the change, a living through it, and a way to learn what comes next. Where an employer cannot, the floor shall be held in common.
4. Those who are displaced shall have learning fitted to what comes next, at no cost to them. Article V keeps learning open to all; this Article carries those in transition.
5. Each of us shall learn what we can, as we can, and no one shall be shamed for what they cannot.
6. We will build communities that catch those who fall.

By these signs it is kept

• Those whose work is taken by machines get warning, a living and a path forward, whoever employed them.
• Learning to adapt is free for those who need it.
• Those who are displaced are counted, heard and helped, not forgotten.