For a community running on a few people who cannot stop
The same three people do everything
Everyone can see it and nobody can fix it — because redistribution needs a structure, and complaining is not one.
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What you will be able to do
01
Enumerate the work, which is the step that actually gets skipped
02
Find the single points of failure, and give each one a second holder
03
Separate doing a thing from deciding it, so handing over is possible
04
Say why the person carrying it cannot be the person who fixes it
The path
5 steps, in order
- The work that breaks people Five patterns that all end in the same place — a community running on two or three people who cannot stop, and a group that can see it and cannot fix it.
- Responsibility that becomes authority The person who does a thing ends up deciding it — nobody granted that, and nobody can take it back without taking the work back too.
- Care work nobody counts The noticing, remembering and smoothing that never reaches a rota — done by the same people, unrecorded, until one of them stops.
- Information nobody can reach The accounts, the passwords, the history and the reason the rule exists — held by whoever happened to be there, and reachable only through them.
- Self-sufficiency without contribution Households withdraw into their own lives, one reasonable decision at a time, and the commons is maintained by whoever still minds.
- Path complete Then: Founder transition.
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