This document outlines a vision for a new social and economic system focused on enabling all people to realize their potential and find fulfillment. It proposes that everyone should have an unconditional basic income in order to freely pursue fulfilling work. Competition would be based on different contributions that express individual talents, with open information systems helping break down legacy industries. The goal is to transition toward a world where opportunity and fulfillment are shared by all without harm.

1. The Common Purpose Change

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3. Our System
Success is realised by the extent to which our products realise
ourselves, not in money or popularity. Money and popularity
are by-products over which we have far less control.
If income sharing in permanent and unconditional then we do
not have to try and accumulate financial fortunes to guarantee
it. Instead, we have the freedom to focus on making our best
contributions in products that realise our potential.
Our whole system should be geared towards making our system
one in which we can all find fulfilment through realising our
potential: that is the common purpose.
This purpose should be reflected in our legal systems, our
economic systems, our organisations, and our social systems.

4. Enlightenment
We all have to right to realise our potential. Only a shared
base income can guarantee that right for everyone.
A world in which fulfilment without harm is guaranteed is at
its most efficient. It is a world were all things are done easily:
in the right way, at the right time, in the right place.
This is the world of enlightenment, where fulfilment leads to
greatest understanding, and no harm to guardianship of all.
Our enlightenment on the nature of our world will be the
outcome of us, as a species, realising our potential in each and
every individual – an enlightenment and understanding that
will see us living as guardians of nature operating
harmoniously with its forces and resources, rather than as
masters seeking to exploit it.

5. Make Change 1:3
Transform our system into one no longer based on finance and power,
money and control, but on our fulfilment and the realisation of all our
potentials without harm.
In general, we are the same, in particular, all different. It is our
differences that make us special, unique and individual. If we give up,
surrender or derogate our fulfilment, we submit to the forces that
denigrate our individual expression and we live lives unfulfilled and
unexpressed. The world loses our product and our potential, and we
lose ourselves.
It will not be until we insist on our rights that they are instituted and
our organisations reflect them. It is not enough to not harm, we must
reject harm as well. We must do what is right for ourselves without
harming others.

6. Make Change 2:3
Refuse to recognise authority that harms, even when it is not us being
harmed, even if protesting means we are harmed. If we do not, we
permit harm.
Recognise the basic right of all of us to fulfilment without harm. This
requires us all share in a base income we all receive so that we can all
make our own choices about how we make our best contributions to
realise our potentials and find fulfilment.
Do not conform. Insist on flexibility and tolerance. Do what expresses
ourselves, do what is right.
Reject the confiscation of our ideas, reject rigidity in work time and
place, reject total compliance with commands, and reject restrictions
on dress and appearance. Employment contracts must be fair, as
between equal members, equal participants.

7. Make Change 3:3
By being strong and expressing ourselves we contribute to the never
ending whirlpool of debate and opinion that is our collective
intelligence and our common fulfilment.
Align everything to fulfilment, divert financial incentive, but not
financial signals, and replace them with the fulfilment-growth incentive
by contribution.
Advance work that is fulfilling; open learning via all channels; promote
contribution and ideas.
If the world is not fair (and it is not), make it fairer: that is our
challenge, not our excuse.

8. Find Our Niche
Competition occurs in closely related niches, between painters with
different styles, physicists with different theories, toymakers with
different toys, between people in similar fields trying to make their best
contributions.
Open information systems are essential to breaking through the legacies
of former producers in our niche.
The most effective tool of human selection is the realisation of our own
potential, as when the contribution from realising our potential is
lauded, then the effect of that popularity on the whole population’s
selection for traits alike to ours is at its greatest.
So if there is competition to contribute, then it is competition to
contribute as ourselves, in ways that express and fulfil who we are.

9. The Transition
To make progress towards our common fulfilment we need to question
our current systems and hold our purpose in mind.
The detail of how opportunity and income is shared, so opportunity to
contribute and find fulfilment is shared, must be a decision from the
choices of all of us via the information systems we have constructed.
More than likely it will not be a fixed decision, but a series of
transforming decisions, modified as our society adapts and modifies.
We need to think about the mechanics of how we make life an
opportunity for all of us to find fulfilment without harm, as well as live
our own lives in pursuit of our fulfilment without harm to others,
contributing were we are best able, in the right way, at the right time, in
the right place.

10. For further information visit…
OUR SYSTEM
http://oursystem.info
The Common Purpose Manifesto
http://thecommonpurpose.com