Proof of Address: For Whom the Button Is Pressed — The Dative Structure of Work and the Transition from Engagement Credits to Addressed-Activity Support

This paper forms part of the author’s After the Wage Link programme and develops questions opened in After the Wage Link (Zenodo 21027817), The Threefold Wage (Zenodo 21039035), The Ethical Coffeespoon (Zenodo 21003706), and Institute for the Structural Transition of the Labour Contract (Zenodo 21059315).

Those works separate the wage’s distributive, structural, and recognitive functions, examine the constitutional limits of post-wage allocation, and consider the institutions required for transition beyond wage-linked distribution. Proof of Address extends that work by isolating relational address as a distinct component of recognition and by asking how addressed activity may be supported without creating personal scores, cumulative credits, workfare conditions, or new hierarchies of civic standing.

The related Zenodo records should be entered as connected works within the same programme, using “is derived from,” “is supplemented by,” or “is part of” as appropriate to the available relationship fields.

This paper was developed through the author’s adversarial multi-reviewer workflow, using AI systems in separated critique, falsification, and synthesis roles. All conceptual decisions, constitutional ratifications, revisions, and responsibility for the final argument remain with the author.
   

Disclaimer

This working paper is a conceptual and constitutional analysis, not an implementation blueprint, legal opinion, economic forecast, or recommendation that any government, employer, or institution adopt a specific credit or support system. Its proposed tests, safeguards, and failure conditions are intended for scrutiny and further research.

The scenarios and boundary cases are illustrative constructions unless explicitly supported by cited evidence. References to occupations, institutions, technologies, or social groups do not imply criticism of individual workers or endorsement of any particular organisational practice.

Any future application of proof of address would require independent legal, empirical, administrative, equality, privacy, and human-rights assessment. Nothing in this paper supports conditioning subsistence, civic standing, access to public goods, or personal worth on participation in addressed activity.

AI systems assisted with adversarial critique, synthesis, and editorial development. All conceptual decisions, ratifications, source selection, and responsibility for the published argument remain with the author.