How each model solves the same problems
Instead of “democracy versus anarchism”, compare the concrete ways collective problems get solved.
| Question | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How are decisions made? | Designed and run by federal and Manitoba governments as a research programme; households applied and were paid by a field office. | Kings of small kingdoms (túatha) under over-kings; assemblies (óenach); customary law expounded by hereditary jurists rather than legislated. | Unknown | |
| How are conflicts resolved? | Administrative income verification; no participant role in governance. | Brehon judges; sureties (naidm, ráth, aitire); distraint of livestock; ritual fasting against higher-ranking defendants; body-fines and honour-price compensation.Arbitration | Unknown | |
| How are public goods funded? | Federal–provincial funding of income guarantees with 35–75% benefit-reduction rates; produced a research dataset later made public. | Rules on shared grazing, co-operative ploughing, mills and fencing; obligatory hospitality; churches and monasteries; few public works. | Unknown | |
| How is AI used? | No AI role. | None; a medieval legal order. | Unknown | |
| What are the main risks? | Political termination before analysis; dependence on the governments that launched it; confusion between negative income tax and universal basic income. | Status-graded and unequal protection, unfree labour, endemic raiding and dynastic war, and vulnerability to a centralising conqueror.CLM-0385 | Unknown |
This illustrates differences in design; it is not a universal claim about outcomes. Each cell links to mechanisms and the claims behind them.