20 principles
How the values become a working theory
Each principle states a question, an answer, and what it would change — along with the strongest argument against it. All 20 below, then grouped by what they govern.
All 20, in order
- 01Democratic Opportunity
- 02Human-Scale Abundance
- 03The American Guarantee
- 04Competitive Capitalism
- 05No Private Sovereignty
- 06Broad-Based Ownership
- 07Distributed Power
- 08Measure What Matters
- 09Technology With Consent
- 10Prosperity, Resilience & Abundance
- 11America's Strategic Advantages
- 12Abundance Means Quality of Life
- 13Build America's Productive Infrastructure
- 14Technology Should Expand Human Opportunity
- 15Build and Protect America's Capital
- 16Government Must Remain Accountable to Citizens
- 17Make Democracy Fast
- 18The American Guardrails
- 19Democracy Must Govern
- 20Earn the Tradeoff
Power & Democracy
Who holds power, and what keeps it accountable.
Democratic Opportunity
Democracy is more than voting — it requires the freedom, information, and economic agency to meaningfully participate.
Read05No Private Sovereignty
One person, one vote. Corporations don't govern society. AI doesn't become sovereign. Extraordinary success is protected — unaccountable power isn't.
Read07Distributed Power
America should be able to produce extraordinary companies without allowing them to become political authorities.
Read16Government Must Remain Accountable to Citizens
A Citizen Dashboard: what government is proposing, what affects you, how you can participate, and what happened afterward.
Read17Make Democracy Fast
Simplify processes, remove unnecessary approvals, automate repetitive work, and measure cycle time — the goal is more capable government, not smaller government.
Read18The American Guardrails
Free speech, due process, equal protection, free and fair elections — non-negotiable, regardless of the tradeoff on the table.
Read19Democracy Must Govern
Citizens provide legitimacy, experts provide knowledge, AI expands understanding of complexity — humans make the decisions.
ReadAbundance & Ownership
What the system produces, and who owns it.
Human-Scale Abundance
Technology should make the essentials of life more abundant, affordable, and accessible — not just grow the economy on paper.
Read03The American Guarantee
Government guarantees the floor — healthcare, education, housing, connectivity — and leaves the ceiling open.
Read04Competitive Capitalism
Markets compete to solve problems; government's job is protecting the rules of competition, not eliminating it.
Read06Broad-Based Ownership
As AI changes work, the answer shouldn't simply be another job — it should increasingly include another path to ownership.
Read10Prosperity, Resilience & Abundance
The goal isn't simply reducing inequality — it's guaranteeing prosperity, resilience, and abundance through disruption.
Read12Abundance Means Quality of Life
Abundant energy, food, healthcare, housing, education, time, nature, community, and choice — the goal is human flourishing, not maximum consumption.
ReadStrategic Capacity
What America builds and protects for the long run.
America's Strategic Advantages
AI infrastructure, energy, agriculture, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, water, defense, immigration, and trade — built as one strategic flywheel.
Read13Build America's Productive Infrastructure
Water, energy, AI, transportation, housing, digital, and research infrastructure — measured by how much better lives get because it was built.
Read14Technology Should Expand Human Opportunity
Technology should increase human capability, not make human beings economically disposable.
Read15Build and Protect America's Capital
Fiscal rules: invest with purpose, eliminate structural deficits, build surpluses in strong years, and measure spending by cost, return, and outcome.
ReadAccountability & Tradeoffs
How we measure progress and own the costs.
Measure What Matters
A national Quality of Life Dashboard, with targets for 2030, 2040, and 2050, becomes the feedback loop for every other principle.
Read09Technology With Consent
Citizens should know what technology does, what data it collects, who uses it, and how its decisions can be challenged.
Read20Earn the Tradeoff
No hidden tradeoffs. No irreversible tradeoffs without extraordinary justification. The benefit must justify the cost.
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