Thermostat Commons

= a peer-to-peer economic architecture for socially just and thermodynamically stable provisioning of basic goods

URL = https://zenodo.org/records/17885691

"The Thermostat Commons — a complete, open-source, mathematically grounded framework for post-scarcity provisioning of essentials, designed for deployment within devolved competencies."

Description

Farooq Javid Hamid:

"The model introduces dynamic systemic equilibrium into foundational resource allocation via a spring-dampened negative feedback loop. It hardcodes a universal baseline for human survival while using a viscous damping coefficient to make hyper-accumulation mechanically and financially prohibitive. It operates via a transition strategy of parallel coherence and fractal nucleation, requiring no top-down sovereign permission to begin."

Status

Farooq Javid Hamid:

"I have fully operationalized this framework into an 8-Brief Policy Suite (covering Energy, Land, Food, Transport, Healthcare, Education, Capital, and Transition) designed for immediate deployment within regional or devolved competencies.

The National Commons Electricity System (brief available): utilizes existing UK retail supplier rules to guarantee a 4,000 kWh/year baseline allocation via expiring vouchers, funded by above-baseline fiat billing. This brief is currently under active ministerial review by the Scottish Government’s Energy and Social Justice directorates."

(email, June 2026)

More information

A complete systems architecture, including the φ‑Stack, Thermostat Commons canon, and analyst protocol, is available in the accompanying suite of papers listed below;

Capitalism Dissolved: A Proposal for a Commonwealth of Expiring Vouchers: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18067013

A technical version (v3), containing the full architectural mechanism and implementation details, is available at; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18111584

The φ‑Stack: A Unified Architecture for Commons Stability (Version 1.2); https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18008122

Thermostat Commons: The Defender's Canon; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18113589

Analyst Protocol for the Thermostat Commons Canon: A Structured Prompt for Interrogation, Challenge and Extension; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18128558