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Corpus frame

The corpus applies one lens to many domains: what mechanisms produce the outcome? It shares four methodological commitments and one explicit directional commitment. Each linked page argues for its part; the links are derivations and disputes, not evidence inherited by every page. The directional commitment does not by itself settle system boundary, distribution, sacrifice, or institutional authority.

  1. Mechanisms are what act. Incentive gradients, selection pressures, feedback loops, and capital stocks produce the distribution of outcomes. Intentions, labels, official categories, and stated values are evidence about mechanisms, or are themselves coordination mechanisms. They are not causal substitutes. — Mechanism Realism · Only Selection
  2. The reference telos is sustained flourishing. The broadest achievable adaptive safety margin over deep time — not the continuity of any incumbent state, coalition, institution, or doctrine. A mechanism's own stated goal can still serve as a local proof obligation — showing that its incentives defeat even the purpose it claims is a bounded finding — but meeting that goal establishes nothing about the margin. — Flourishing Is Maximum Safety Margin
  3. Law, rights, legitimacy, democracy, markets, and sovereignty are mechanisms under evaluation. They are constraints, carriers, or proxies inside the analysis. None is a terminal value or a boundary of what is real. Treating one as terminal ends the mechanism search before it starts. Evaluation carries current function, replacement cost, path dependence, uncertainty, capture risk, reversibility, and who bears model error into the ledger. — The Stack · Mechanism Space
  4. Optimization is a system function. A civilization has to build, exercise, and revise metamechanisms that search mechanism-space, discard dominated options, install, observe effects, and repair under uncertainty. Not running that loop leaves margin unrealized, and that is itself the failure. No single component — analyst, model, or institution — is presumed to contain a global optimum; the capacity is a property of the system. — Telic Systems · The Three-Layer Architecture
  5. Uncertainty is preserved, not spent. Partial orders, binding constraints, unknowns, and residuals stay explicit. An unmeasured effect is not a favorable default. — The Compression Paradox · Cargo Cult Epistemology

Each essay bears its own evidence. Links carry definitions, derivations, applications, and disputes; they do not transfer proof. Criticism is answered on its substance.

Where each commitment is derived

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RM-009401

The 2008 public-goods study measures individual punishment of other players. Mapping that onto Finnish tax incidence treats a lab preference as the author of the rate schedule. Section III's extraction rule — tax what organized resistance will bear — already explains labor-first targeting without a captured instinct.

causal_identification · mechanism_identity, study_role

RM-009402

Concede the level jump. The study only kills envy. The load-bearing claim is the sensor split. The leftover is whether the instinct follows the lights or the tax code is cheapest collection regardless of what anyone feels.

source_compatible_defense · study_scope, redirect_dependency

RM-009403

Labor is already fully visible and still taxed at 55%+. Visibility made it collectible, not morally recoded as cheating. "The same instinct will redirect itself" is therefore a hope about lists, not a result the labor sensors already showed.

evidence_burden · redirect_status

RM-009404

Tax Day is already a sensor on labor. The instinct may track named neighbors, not cash flows. Land rent in a housing-company charge and a plot fund is not a neighbor. A missing register is then the wrong missing object; missing salience is.

alternative_mechanism · visibility_versus_salience

RM-009405

A Top-100 list of companies and account numbers is not Tax Day. The working ritual names a human. Even if Kela's legal framing flipped, a fund name may not trip the instinct the repair needs.

implementation_attack · register_object

RM-009406

VATT near-zero pass-through plus recode-to-floor still leaves constrained supply as a sufficient cause of rents that never fall. The allowance then keeps poor tenants in a tight market rather than setting the floor.

alternative_mechanism · pump_mechanism

RM-009407

Zoning, NIMBY, and construction already appear as what makes Finnish real estate "safe." If those set the floor, publishing asumistuki recipients is another Tax Day: a visible payee for a price set elsewhere.

scope_challenge · repair_target

RM-009408

Discriminating evidence is a window where supply loosened and the allowance stayed, or the reverse. Without it, cycling-money and streetlight-taxation can both be true and the landlord still not be the residual target.

evidence_burden · identifying_window

RM-009409

The 2022-2024 valuation reform was Phase 1 — GIS, market prices — and died because measurement was a tax increase on Helsinki homeowners. A plot-fund and land-appreciation register is the same instrument with a friendlier name.

implementation_attack · phase1_identity

RM-009410

Sequencing visibility then narrative then tax shift explains why not to jump to sudden land value tax. It does not make a public land list cheaper against the same median-voter and pension veto that killed valuation.

implementation_attack · phase1_cost

RM-009411

Split the sensor. Housing-allowance-by-landlord is a tenant-versus-institution fight. Land valuation is a tax on the median house. Those are not one first step. If only the first can pass, the instinct still does not see land, which the later tax shift needs.

constructive_extension · sensor_split, baptist_alignment