Domain framework
The Commons Framework
A practical guide to building shared life worth inheriting across households, neighborhoods, teams, institutions, and civic communities.
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Introduction
The Commons Framework is a practical guide to building shared life worth inheriting.
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The Shared World
No one lives in a private world.
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From Resident to Member
There is a difference between living somewhere and belonging to it.
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The Household Commons
The household is the first commons most people are responsible for directly.
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Domestic Reliability
Reliability at home is love made usable.
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Family Money and Shared Risk
Money inside a household is never only personal.
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Children and Formation
Children are not private projects.
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Elder Care and Interdependence
A society reveals itself by how it treats dependence when dependence is no longer cute.
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Hospitality and Neighborliness
Hospitality is how strangers become known.
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Local Participation
The closest obligations are often the easiest to ignore.
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Voluntary Associations
Shared life is not built by government and family alone.
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Leadership as Stewardship
Leadership is custody of conditions.
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Institutional Trust
Trust is not owed to institutions because they are institutions.
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Transparent Decisions
People can accept many decisions they dislike if they can understand how the decision was made.
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Incentives and Accountability
Systems teach by what they reward.
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Conflict and Repair
Every shared life will produce conflict.
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Justice and Proportionality
Justice requires more than taking sides with the harmed.
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Service and Burden Sharing
Service is not proven by admiration for service.
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Education and Formation
Education is one of the main ways a society tells the future what matters.
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Mentorship and Apprenticeship
Knowledge that is not passed on becomes private wealth.
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Cultural Memory
A community without memory becomes easy to manipulate.
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Technology and Public Attention
Attention is a commons.
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Built and Natural Stewardship
People inherit places before they inherit ideas about places.
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Emergency Readiness
Crisis reveals the true condition of shared life.
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Generational Inheritance
Every generation receives a world it did not build and leaves a world it will not inhabit.
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