Add before-launch.md: a founding lottery testing whether serious
pre-launch help (a founder's stipend, a feasibility study, legal setup)
creates more co-ops that last, measured independently of the bank, and
a 5% founder stake payable in verified unpaid work. Fund it from the
loan budget, and correct the pilot's growth arithmetic.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QWPs69B8nQZjtPEUXMKzZx
Add pay.md: pay bands open to every worker, a ratio each co-op must
choose and measure honestly, a double majority for high pay and for
raises to jobs most members hold, and no one voting alone on their own
pay. Stop the reserve rule from charging co-ops for raising the bottom,
and close its gaps for perks, non-members and related companies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QWPs69B8nQZjtPEUXMKzZx
Add high-turnover.md: in home care, a 12-month probation and the
three-quarters rule could fail a co-op doing everything right. Make
membership automatic after a short probation, take the buy-in from
profit shares rather than pay, count agency hours and push-outs, and
phase the rule in. Align the lock, the pilot's safeguards and measures,
worker ownership, the index and open problems.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QWPs69B8nQZjtPEUXMKzZx
Add conservice.md: the company as it is (from public sources only),
the same business founded as a locked co-op, what the profit split
could mean at its scale under labeled assumptions, whether it would
have grown, and who would have received less. Link it from the
thesis, worker ownership and the index.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QWPs69B8nQZjtPEUXMKzZx
Add buyouts.md: owners who choose to sell a healthy firm to its workers
can borrow on a separate $100M track with its own test (money plus a
pay floor), a capped independent price, a seller note that shares the
risk, a vote of the whole workforce and the lock. Restate the total
worst case as $450M and answer open problem #12.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QWPs69B8nQZjtPEUXMKzZx
Add "Making It Last": how public programs get killed (Ex-Im, CDFI Fund,
GGRF, NCCB) and survive (Bank of North Dakota, electric co-ops, Farm
Credit), and rules that assume any president can replace the board
after Trump v. Slaughter. Lending standards fixed in law, a "not tested"
verdict if good applicants are turned away, no freeze from board
vacancies, honest limits on where the money sits, and federal test with
state copies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QWPs69B8nQZjtPEUXMKzZx
Add savings-guarantee.md: a co-op-funded insurance pool covering final
unpaid wages, former members' payouts and a protected slice of current
accounts, priced for near-zero recovery by an independent actuary, with
a credit-union-style deposit, phased coverage, pro-rata payment when
short, and rules against phantom profits, early quitting and fraud
rings. Co-ops may no longer take member deposits or sell members bonds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QWPs69B8nQZjtPEUXMKzZx
Explain why a permanent lock has precedent (UK CICs, steward ownership,
US nonprofit conversions) and what it prevents (building-society
demutualisation). Enforce it in layers: an independent veto-only lock
share, articles, statute, and a backstop that sends the value to the
federation fund if the lock is ever broken. Treat piecemeal asset sales,
hire-backs and subsidiaries as sales; adapt Argentina's bankruptcy rule,
noting it needs a Bankruptcy Code amendment; state the lock's costs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QWPs69B8nQZjtPEUXMKzZx
Add precedents.md: Mondragon's Caja Laboral, the US National Consumer
Cooperative Bank, Italy's Coopfond and Marcora Law, each with what went
wrong. Add a support lottery to the pilot (intensive help for a random
half, advisers walled off from lending, all help counted against the
bank), count distressed mergers as closures, and replace unsourced
precedent claims on the bank and argument pages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QWPs69B8nQZjtPEUXMKzZx
Add the-long-run.md: the Furubotn-Pejovich worry, the French and
Italian evidence, the plywood "failure of success", and four rules:
the reserve takes its share of pay above the going rate, asset-sale
gains go to the reserve, qualifying development can be spread over
five years with abandonment charged to those who chose it, and
accounts earn Treasury+2 only while at risk. Update capital accounts,
worker ownership, the pilot's measures, open problems and the index.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QWPs69B8nQZjtPEUXMKzZx
Add capital-accounts.md (profit split, cash share, formula interest,
payout rules, solvency test, savings protections, worked outcomes).
Rewrite founder-problem.md with a discounted co-op vs conventional
comparison, the risk evidence (Hall-Woodward, Hamilton), and bounded
founder tools. Add founder-related measures and safeguards to the
pilot pages, and renumber open problems.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QWPs69B8nQZjtPEUXMKzZx
Add "The Pilot, in Numbers": a one-time $350M, ~400-co-op pilot with
a power-calculated sample size, loan limits, a checked definition of
market rate, two pre-registered deciding measures (fair survival with
a pay and membership guardrail, and a Treasury-rate hurdle for the
loan book), a matched SBA comparison plus a lottery at the margin, a
year-12 review, a fast-track vote on success and a self-executing
wind-down on failure. Built around the FONDES and Venezuela failures.
Add "Guarding the Pilot": rules against hidden-boss shells, capital
claim drains, split borrowers, relabeled rescues, zombie survival,
sabotage, a rigged review, and political favoritism.
Link both from the index, bank, test, capital and lock pages, and add
the pilot's weak points and the federal-vs-state question to Open
Problems.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QWPs69B8nQZjtPEUXMKzZx
Replaces the chapters with the v3 foundation: new chapters for the bank,
the lock, the founder problem, the test and intellectual property; removes
conversion, conversion-tax and valuation. Rewrites the overview to lead
with "nobody is forced" and rewords draft-history references for
first-time readers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Adds The Conversion Tax chapter. The tax is withheld in cash from each
buyout payment, the rate schedule is locked on conversion day, brackets
run on cash actually received, pre-bill gifts are added back to the
lifetime ledger, and above-market side payments to former owners count
as proceeds. It explains why taking the tax in kind was rejected
(Koontz, Horne, Tyler). It also corrects the 1950s precedent (capital
gains were capped at 25%) and states plainly how the recycled tax
lowers what workers pay. Open problems now cover proceeds vs gains,
treaty overrides and recession cyclicality.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GsSJ98117VXm9t7rBra5NX
Adds a Valuation chapter. It covers market price, control-size arm's-length
sales, and a formula whose industry multiples come from real acquisitions
and whose profit figures are cleaned of related-party games. Disputes stay
in court (Monongahela), but each side files a final number, costs follow
reasonableness, inflated claims draw a penalty, and workers get an
independent public valuation counsel. Conversion brackets now apply to
lifetime proceeds and look through foundations and trusts. Open problems
are updated for the anticipation discount and conversion-tax durability.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GsSJ98117VXm9t7rBra5NX
Renders the markdown documents in Content/Socialism: a landing overview at
/socialism and chapters at /socialism/{slug}, with a sectioned sidebar,
on-page table of contents, prev/next paging and cross-document links.
Pages are noindex and nothing on the site links to them. Underscore-prefixed
files (founding draft, progress log) are never served, deployed or committed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
On a fresh table the button is on seat 1, and seat 1 is where the first player
goes. Tapping it did nothing.
The dealer chip is a 22px disc, and a 22px disc is half the 44px a fingertip
needs, so it carried an invisible pad to catch the tap. The pad was moved twice
looking for somewhere to grow that wasn't already spoken for: outward first,
where it hung over the seat next door and gave that seat the button; then
inward, over "its own seat, which is a large target that can spare the corner".
The seat could not spare it. Measured on a 390px phone, a 72x46 puck: the pad
ran from the puck's own centre to its right edge and from its top to 3px off its
bottom, and the chip's handler calls stopPropagation. The seat holding the
button kept 52% of its face — 130 of 276 sampled points went to the chip, its
exact middle among them. Every other seat kept 97%. The button moves every hand,
so the dead puck went round the table with it.
And the chip it went to had nothing to say. Its only answer is "give the button
to this seat", and this is the seat that has it. The seat menu already knew that
and hides "Give the button" there; mid-hand the same no-op would have taken the
blinds off the felt and re-posted the same chips to announce that nothing
happened.
So the pad is gone rather than moved again — a fixed pad cannot be safe at every
puck size, and no finger reaches any chip now: the ghosts are pointer-events:
none without hover, and the one live chip is this one, which is now inert to the
pointer and still there to read. Giving the button is the long-press menu on
touch and the revealed ghost on a mouse, both unchanged. makeDealer returns
early on the seat that already has it, so the keyboard can't re-post blinds to
move the button nowhere either.
The sweep had a check for exactly this — "a seat's centre belongs to that seat",
written when the pad was reaching outward — and it ran clean through all of it,
because `seat.contains(hit)` waves through anything inside the seat and the chip
is inside the seat. The check written for this bug could not see the second half
of it. A control inside a seat is a rival for the tap now, and against the old
stylesheet it fails seven scenarios.
982 unit tests, 6 of them new; the layout sweep is 320 audits with the one
pre-existing failure (a $1,300 chip behind seat 11 on a twelve-handed 360x640
all-in).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
The header stood 120px tall on a 390x844 phone and only 46 of that was a
control. The other 74 were a 22px page title with a gold rule under it, a back
link, and a gold "Hand #1" pill — three things read once, above a screen whose
whole subject is the green table underneath. Sixteen percent of the window,
spent before the felt started.
A phone held sideways had already solved this. The landscape block clips the
title and puts everything on one row, because at 390px tall there was no other
option. Upright never got the same answer, and upright is how this tool is
held. It is 44px now, the table starts at 78px instead of 152, and the felt
went from 496px to 570 — about fifteen percent more table on the same screen.
Nothing left the page:
- The title is still the document's <h1>, clipped rather than removed, so it is
still the heading a screen reader lands on and still what the browser tab and
the installed app are called.
- The back link keeps a 44px box and loses only the word "Casino", which is what
every phone does with a back link. The name a screen reader gets is on the <a>
either way, and it contains the visible word on the sizes that still show it.
- The hand number moved to the action bar's status row, in front of the street.
That row already says what hand you are in — the street, the pot, the player
count — and this is the fourth fact of the same kind; a counter read after the
fact had no business holding a line of the header all night. It costs the bar
nothing: the five audit scenarios that report the bar's height report the same
249, 227, 203, 227 and 227 pixels as before.
The three buttons take the width the title gave up rather than shrink-wrapping
to the right of it, which is 26px of extra target each. `flex: 1 1 0` was wrong
here — it divides the row into equal thirds and squeezes "Next Hand ⟳", 105px of
text, into 99, and these are nowrap, so what gives is the label. An `auto` basis
makes the label the floor and the spare width the bonus. On the narrowest phone
in the sweep the arrow and all three buttons come to 323px of 336.
The arrow was 32px on the first pass and the layout sweep caught it at 31x43 on
every touch viewport there is — 56 scenarios, one control. The word had been
carrying the width; with the word gone the arrow is the whole target. 44 square.
The sweep is down from five failures to one. Four of the five were seats and bet
chips colliding on a 360px Galaxy S8, and 76px more felt was all they needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
The seat sheet is the second-most-used surface here — every buy-in, every
rename, every correction goes through it — and it was the least finished one.
Seven things were stacked flat at one weight and all open at once. Measured on
a 390px phone it came to 594px and scrolled, and the three controls a dealer
touches on nearly every visit were 132px of that. The chip counter alone was
174px, the tallest single thing in the sheet, for a job most tables do once a
night or never; the two hole-card slots were 62px of dashed grey on every table
that never asked to be shown a card.
Cards, the contribution and the custom fields are behind a fold now, and which
of the three stand open is a question about the seat rather than a setting: a
seat holding cards opens its cards, a seat with chips counted opens its count,
a seat with a note on it opens its notes. A shut section says the answer on its
own row — the cards, the total, how many notes — so nothing already entered is
further away than it was. An empty chair is 419px and does not scroll; a seat
with everything filled in is 625 and opens all three.
The fields have the width the sheet always had. `.fieldRow input` caps at 140px,
which is right in a 320px sidebar of settings and wrong in a sheet holding a
whole phone: "Name" sat against the left edge with 203px of nothing between it
and a field a third of the row wide. Same 44px control, 300px instead of 140.
The chip counter's values are text. They were a `title` attribute, which is a
tooltip, which is nothing on the device this is used on — five identical number
boxes told apart by five coloured dots. It also left the wrapping <label> with
no text in it, so they had no accessible name either.
And the sheet has a scrim. It was the only one of the tool's seven overlays
without one, while covering the felt from 250px down and the action bar with
it — modal in everything but appearance. What stayed lit above it was the
header, with Misdeal, Next Hand and Resolve Pot live under a thumb reaching for
a name field. It dismisses on a tap and on Escape now, like the other six; a
card picker opened from inside still takes Escape first. In landscape the scrim
stops where the sheet stops, so Fold, Call and Raise keep the rail.
It is put away with visibility rather than opacity, which is the same lesson the
sheet above it already learned about transforms — and the layout sweep caught it
the same way. At `opacity: 0` a fixed, full-window box is invisible and still
entirely there: bottomFurniture() read it as furniture standing 640px tall at
the bottom of a 640px phone, in every state and on every screen, and asked
scroll-padding to reserve the whole window for it. Ninety-eight scenarios failed
on it; hidden is hidden, and the sweep is back to the five it started with.
The toast steps over the sheet the way it already steps over the action bar.
Both are fixed to the bottom of a phone, and a "Keeping the screen on" toast
was landing squarely on the seat form with its Undo and its × live above the
fields. The height is measured and published, because it changes the moment a
section is unfolded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
The sweep has checked WCAG AA contrast for a long time and the page passed. That
result was worth less than it looked.
WCAG 2's ratio is a luminance gap, and a luminance gap overstates readability once
one colour is near black — which is every reading on a page whose ground is #141414.
Tuning a colour until it clears 4.5:1 there lands on text that passes the audit and
still reads as a smudge across a table in a dim room. Several rules in this
stylesheet said as much in their own comments, one of them "measured 4.5:1 at
#a5a5a5 exactly, so it sits above that": the right instinct through the wrong lens.
The check also could not see half the backgrounds it scored against. It reads
background-color and takes the best contrast of any candidate ancestor, so text on
the felt was scored against the dark page behind the felt. Two plain AA failures sat
in a clean report for as long as the check has existed — the chair number on the
brown rim at 2.65:1, and the pot's own label, gold on green, at 2.66:1.
runContrastAudit.js scores with APCA and gets the background by screenshotting the
page with its text made transparent and reading the pixels, which no gradient or
shadow can fool. The first version walked the DOM and called the gold dealer button
black-on-black at Lc 0.4; that false positive is why it works this way.
Found: 65 of 92 pieces of text below their level, 54 passing AA at the same moment,
worst Lc 28. Now nothing is below Lc 60, nothing fails AA, and the worst is Lc 60.4.
Three fixes worth naming, none of them "make the grey lighter":
- A player's stack was secondary text at Lc 44, under a name in --text at a heavier
weight. That says a dealer needs the name more than the number; during a hand the
opposite is true. Hierarchy comes from size and weight now, which is free, rather
than from fading, which on a dark ground is the most expensive way to say it.
- An empty seat had no background of its own, so the felt decided how readable its
number was: Lc 28 on the rim, 30 on the green, 33 further in. It has a ground now,
at 0.62 and not the 0.82 first written — contrast is nearly flat across that range
and the heavier wash put four dark rectangles on the felt like holes.
- The pot's label sat on the one green in the design. The disc is deeper rather than
the label bleached, because gold on dark green is the pairing this page is built
on. Deepening only its outer stop moved it two points: the highlight is at 32%/28%
and that is exactly where the label sits.
apca.js is checked against the eight published reference pairs, png.js against
round-tripped fixtures for every filter. Four fault injections caught; a fifth
turned out to be a no-op — the Paeth predictor is symmetric in its first two
arguments over all 16,777,216 byte triples, so that swap is untestable, which is
written down rather than papered over with a fixture that appears to catch it.
Still below the strict APCA level: 55, all of them 10-12px labels that would need
white type or a bigger seat puck. Reported, not chased, and said out loud in the
sweep's own notes.
Layout sweep unchanged: 5 FAILs, 14 offender lines, no regressions. 950 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
A focused <input type="number"> is a spinbutton, and a browser lets the mouse
wheel drive it. Measured on the running page at 1280x900 with the sidebar
open: focus the small blind and scroll, $5 becomes $5.50. Focus a seat's stack
and scroll, $500 becomes $501. Both go straight through to localStorage,
because these fields save on `input` like everything else here.
Nothing is announced and nothing looks wrong. The tool has invented a chip, on
a table whose whole purpose is that the chip count is right, and the gesture
that did it was a dealer reaching for another panel.
The rule is narrow on purpose. Every other way of driving a spinbutton is
deliberate -- the arrow keys, the stepper arrows, typing -- so scrolling is
the only one taken away. Verified after: the value holds, one ArrowUp still
moves it, typing still works, and the page still scrolls.
Blur rather than preventDefault. Cancelling the event stops the value moving
and stops the page moving with it, which trades a silent bug for a sidebar
that mysteriously will not scroll -- a problem the dealer can see and cannot
explain, instead of one they cannot see at all.
The decision lives in Money as a predicate beside selectsOnFocus, so the rule
is testable without a browser and main.js only does the blurring.
Two things checked rather than assumed. The tagName guard in the predicate is
decoration: deleting it passes every test, because nothing but an <input>
carries type="number". That is now said in the comment instead of being left
to look load-bearing. And the page's one <select> -- which way the blinds move
-- is not vulnerable: focused, hovered and scrolled 300px in Chromium it stays
where it was, so it is left out of the rule rather than defended against.
916 tests pass, 6 of them new. Four fault injections into the predicate are
caught; a fifth was applied, not caught, and turned out not to be a fault.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
The stylesheet had honoured prefers-reduced-motion for a while, in the three
places it mattered least: a 2px press-down on a button, a checkbox tick, and
the acting seat's pulse. What none of them covered was motion that moves
something across the screen, which for anyone with a vestibular disorder is
the part that matters. A button dipping under a thumb is not what makes people
ill.
Four things were doing it, and the three largest were in JavaScript where a
stylesheet cannot reach: the seat editor sheet, which slides the full height
of itself up from off-screen every time a dealer taps a chair; the toast; and
three scrollIntoView({ behavior: "smooth" }) calls, the most provocative of
the lot because what moves is the whole viewport rather than one control.
The scrolls go through Render.bringIntoView now, which reads the setting per
call rather than at page load -- a dealer who turns it on mid-session should
be taken seriously without reloading a table they cannot afford to reload. The
toast keeps its fade and loses its travel, because something that appears
already in place reads as a rendering glitch rather than as news. The sheet's
visibility delay flips at once, or it would leave a sheet that has already
jumped away still painted for a quarter of a second.
The press-down block held nine :active selectors and looked deliberate. It was
written to stop a stuck press state when a tap turns into a scroll, and had
reached for the reduced-motion query as the nearest proxy -- so it covered
.dealerChip and .raiseQuickBtn while missing .actionBtn, the class on Fold,
Call, Raise and Post blinds & deal. Read as its own rule the membership is not
a judgement call: every :hover and :active transform in the file belongs
there. There are sixteen. Nine were listed.
The scan that found the other seven took two goes. A line-by-line version
walked straight past a deliberately broken build, because the injected rule
was written on one line and neither "opens a rule" nor "is a transform"
matched. Parsing blocks caught it -- and then failed on the clean file, which
is how .toastAction, .toastClose and .potWizardChoice came to light: a
multi-line group had been truncated to its last line, so nothing had ever
looked at them.
910 tests pass, 16 of them new. Six script and stylesheet fault injections are
each caught, and the reduced/no-preference split is verified in a real browser
against both context settings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
315 of 320 audits pass. The five that do not are one root cause on the two
smallest screens: twelve seats want about 60px of footprint each and the ring
has 44px of rim to give them, in the two states that make the bar tallest.
Written down rather than left to be rediscovered, because closing it is a
design decision -- drop the bet chips at extreme crowding the way the tight
tier already drops the hole cards, cap the seat count by viewport, or let the
felt scroll -- and each trades something a dealer can see.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
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