Non-goals

Source document: docs/en/04-non-goals.md / Propose an edit

This document defines what World Foundation Design intentionally does not aim to do.

This Design Does Not Aim To

• Replace states by force
• Overthrow governments
• Become a single ruling organization
• Build a closed community or cult-like structure
• Force participation or block exit
• Evade tax, labor, payment, or financial regulations
• Use illegal wage substitutes or pseudo-currency schemes
• Militarize or encourage private punishment
• Center the design around a founder, maintainer, or single name
• Use welfare or life access as a tool of obedience
• Fix human worth through reputation scores
• Use transparency as an excuse for surveillance
• Create a private legal system that illegally replaces state law
• Become a police replacement, security force, or vigilante structure
• Become a world government or central federation authority
• Give founders or early maintainers permanent authority
• Use federation standards or shared protocols for lock-in

Why Non-goals Matter

This repository discusses states, economy, welfare, reputation, arbitration, and infrastructure. Those topics can be misunderstood or misused.

Non-goals define safety boundaries and help reviewers reject changes that move the design toward coercion, domination, legal evasion, or cult-like structures.

Change Process

Changes that remove or weaken Non-goals require a Proposal and should be recorded as a Decision.