Cycle Labor Obligation Standard

System Category

• Necessary System
  • Logistics
    • Standard

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System Brief

The Cycle Labor Obligation (CLO) is a Logistics Standard, which determines the minimum necessary labor hours for all community members need to perform to maintain the necessary systems of the community.

Justification

• Necessary Systems
  • This standard defines the minimum obligation of the necessary systems.
• Quality of Life
  • This standard provides the same labor demand for all people, reducing the overall demand per person.
• Sustainability
  • This standard is based on economic sustainability.

System Functions

This standard is expressed in hours per cycle, allowing flexibility for all labor positions. This standard is calculated by the economic system requirements against the CLO Eligible community members.

• Economic System requirements determine how many labor hours are necessary.
• Labor availability and efficiency determine how many labor hours per person is necessary.

The CLO will need to be updated regularly to accurately reflect community demands as new necessary subsystems are added, amended, or removed.

Economic Theory

There is an amount of labor hours necessary to maintain a system, based on the economic requirements of that system. Sustainability forces the systems to prioritize maintenance rather than growth.

The contract requires all members in the community to fulfill the same necessary systems, oversaturating those systems with labor, which can be reorganized to distribute the labor thus reducing the labor per person. The literal interpretation of “many hands make little work”.

System Output

All community members are given the same CLO, but may be expressed differently to accommodate labor conditions

• A community CLO of ~24 hours per week can also be expressed as ~100 hours per month. Members are expected to labor based on their cycle.
  • If you are given a weekly cycle you must fulfill your hours weekly, if you are given a monthly cycle you can complete your hours anytime in the month.

Fulfilling your CLO keeps you in “good standing” as a member who is equitably maintaining the community. Members in good standing have minimum regulations when equitably accessing the necessary systems of the community.

If a member fails to perform their CLO, to their cooperative’s standards, the member will be in “poor standing” and may have additional regulations towards equitable access.

• Members who are younger than the minimum independent age, are exempt from any CLO standard or enforcements.
• Members who are medically dependent may have their CLO paused, amended, or exempt.

Members who repeat their poor standing may have their access limited, or membership revoked.

Members are allowed to work beyond their CLO, any hours above the CLO will be saved as is and available to use towards a future CLO.

• Laboring 40 hrs/wk, on a 24 hrs/wk CLO , will net the person 16 hours of saved labor per week.
• Members can use their saved time at any time, of any amount. Members can also save their time for an early retirement.

System Requirements

• Information
  • Economic System Demand
  • Labor Availability
  • Labor Efficiency
• Resources
  • No specific resources
• Locations
  • No specific locations
• Labor
  • # Logistics Specialists
  • # Logistics Representative
  • # Infrastructure Specialists
  • # Infrastructure Representative