Frozen with Core 1.0. These pages record the wider questions we were exploring when Core 1.0 was published on 19 August 2026.
Who receives the gains of automation?
How augmentation changes income, working time and the distribution of productivity before and after taxes or transfers.
Universal Basic Income
Human Capital .+ as a pre-distribution path: can workers retain a share of automation gains before redistribution becomes necessary?
The four-day week
What changes when shorter work is earned dynamically from verified productivity rather than applied as one fixed schedule?
What happens when retirement becomes gradual?
How Time+ could interact with institutions that were designed around full-time work followed by a relatively sharp retirement boundary.
Pensions & retirement
How conventional pension capital and accumulated productive capability could coexist across a longer transition out of required work.
Taxation
How taxes might treat worker-owned productive augmentation, Time+ agreements and value generated by a personal +.
Who has power when the worker owns the +?
The employment relationship changes if productive AI capability is portable personal capital rather than purely employer-owned infrastructure.
Labor representation
How unions, works councils and collective bargaining could protect Time+ rules, portability and fair productivity-sharing.
Ownership of AI productivity
What it means to treat a deliberately taught professional augmentation as personally accumulated productive capital.
Who gets the chance to build a +?
A worker-owned augmentation model only improves human lives broadly if access to education, training and productive AI is not limited to already-advantaged groups.
Education
How education changes when people leave school not only with knowledge, but prepared to begin building a lifelong augmentation responsibly.
Intergenerational inequality
How to prevent early adopters or wealthier workers from compounding augmentation advantages that younger or less-resourced workers cannot catch.