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Affordism
The complete public case in sixty seconds.
The One-Pager · Sixty Seconds
Not an ideology. One ratio, and what follows from it.
In any company with fifty or more full-time workers — human or machine — the least-paid full-time worker earns no less than 18% of what the highest-paid person takes.
- The floor rises with the top. Top takes $1M, the floor is $180K. Automatically, same day — no strike, no election, no waiting. The minimum wage becomes obsolete.
- Nothing is forced. Clear the bar for thirteen months, hire local, and earn zero corporate tax and full relief. Or operate exactly as today — nothing taken, nothing added. The choice is public. Payroll tells the truth.
- Everything counts. Salary, stock, jets, housing — and loans against company shares. Purchasing power is compensation, however it arrives. Paper wealth doesn't count until the day it's touched; that day, the floor knows.
- The floor gets stock too. Every 100 options granted at the top puts 18 into the Floor Trust — the same shares, compounding at the same rate, paid to floor workers when they leave. The bottom rides the top's elevator.
- Machines pay the town. A company using technology instead of people pays its host city — 18% of its operator's take, permanently. There is no extraction.
- Leaving is a confession. Exit only into next year — a year's warning to every employee. Three-year lockout. Twice per existence, and existence is payroll: mergers assume the damage. The workforce enforces this, with its feet.
- Friday to Monday. Every other system demands the worker organize, vote, seize, or wait. Affordism asks the worker for nothing: the company crosses the bar Friday, and Monday the ratio is the law of the payroll. The change never touches power. It passes through payroll.
- The proof will be a city. One demonstration city, built on the ratio, judged by one test: does the wallet at the bottom get heavier or lighter? The test is public and the failure criterion is pre-registered. Demonstration, not legislation.
We do not tear the system down. We stand on its shoulders. The top can rise — the floor must rise with it. The floor rises with the top.
Go deeper: the Softpaper in twenty minutes, the Manifesto against every rival system, the Whitepaper for the hardest questions, the Operator's Brief for the boss — all at affordism.com.