Neurodivergent Researcher, System Theorist and Artist (AuDHD Autistic / ADHD /2E), Author, Speaker, Artistic Research in: Consciousness, Work, Critical Autism Studies, Economy, Operatoric Cognition, Orcid: 0009-0002-0143-5949

Universal Care Income – Infrastructure Before Value (Studies in World-Formation, Vol. 13)

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Studies in World-Formation

Section V

Work and Emergence Economy

Volume 13

Universal Care Income – Infrastructure Before Value

This volume concludes Section V of the series by synthesizing the theoretical implications of the Emergence Economy developed in the preceding contributions. The section has shown that modern economies systematically misrecognize forms of work whose effects unfold over long temporal horizons, through relationships, or through the stabilization of complex social and epistemic fields. By introducing the concepts of the Value Threshold, Diversity Threshold, Unfolding Gap, and Eigenzeit, it outlines a framework for understanding the growing disjunction between real world-forming work and its economic recognition.

From this perspective, poverty appears not merely as a lack of resources, but as a structural loss of world-binding capacity. The volume therefore situates the concept of Universal Care Income within a broader theoretical context: not primarily as a redistributive policy, but as an infrastructural condition that protects the possibility of world-forming work in complex societies.

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Speed, T. (2026). Universal Care Income – Infrastructure Before Value (Studies in World-Formation, Vol. 13) (Version 1) [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19000221

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