Self-as-an-End
SAE Political Economy · Paper 6

Support
支持

Han Qin (秦汉) · Independent Researcher · 2026
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23874154 · Full PDF on Zenodo · CC BY 4.0
Abstract

The first five papers wrote mostly of checks: where accumulation becomes a chokepoint that others cannot get around, how checks increase with the power-face, which two conversions must have gates, and how growth keeps from sliding into colonization. This paper turns to the positive side: toward people's emergence in the economy, what does an institution give? It asks five things: whether 15DD emergence in the free market is inevitable, and to what degree; whether the people of the present must wait for an emergence that is inevitable; what it is that an institution gives, and whether it can manufacture emergence; how securing in the Base Layer and support in the Emergence Layer are kept apart; and where an amply given support stops. Two forms of support after the cutback at Bluekiln run through the whole paper: the State Labor Agency's unemployment benefit, training subsidies, relocation subsidies and small start-up loans, for which applicants are not asked where they will go; and the Qiao Foundation's New Bluekiln Program, three years of living allowance at about ninety percent of former wages, on condition that the recipient train on one of three roads the Foundation has set and not work for any other porcelain enterprise for three years. The households of Springhollow with bedridden elderly members when the water was cut off, and the veteran kiln worker's workshop, each come back in one place as well. The conclusions are these. In markets that meet three premises, emergence is a structural inevitability; falling back is possible, the direction does not change, and the direction is not a timetable. Inevitable emergence is not paid for by the people of the present, and present harm cannot wait. An institution gives general conditions that do not designate content; the conditions must be within reach; it does not manufacture emergence. The Base Layer is to be secured and the Emergence Layer supported; the two layers are not traded for each other, and neither direction is permitted: securing in the Base Layer is not obtained in exchange for restrictions in the Emergence Layer, nor may the Base Layer be left empty in exchange for more choice in the Emergence Layer. Support in the Emergence Layer may carry content, and what is lost by refusing it is to be examined. Cultivation needs the two layers together, and the thickness of securing does not prove cultivation. Support may have particular content, but does not acquire the authority to decide a person's direction. Cultivation on the side of the institution and on the side of the person are read apart. Along the way the paper takes up Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society" and Kant on paternal government. The last section closes the whole series. The paper has eight propositions (E32 to E39), each stated at the end of its section and listed together at the end.

Writing Declaration: This paper was co-drafted with Claude (Anthropic). All intellectual decisions, framework design, and final editorial judgments were made by the author.

Introduction

In the spring of Year 25, Bluekiln Porcelain Works shut down two kiln lines and laid off nine hundred people.

Bluekiln lies in the mountains in the west of the Kingdom State. It has about eight thousand people and has made porcelain for more than two hundred years. Bluekiln Porcelain Works is the largest employer in town; the people it employs make up about seventy percent of the town's working-age population. The company said that low-priced porcelain from elsewhere had taken its market; Crossways Home, the own brand of Crossways Group of Apple City, had also switched to buying its porcelain from elsewhere.

After the layoffs, two forms of support were set before those laid off.

One came from the State Labor Agency. Unemployment benefit for twelve months; any one course of vocational training, with the tuition subsidized by the state; for those who relocate, a relocation subsidy; for those who want to start something of their own, a small start-up loan they can apply for, half of it guaranteed by the state. Applicants are not asked where they will go, nor required to take part in any particular item. The state's training courses are mostly held in Apple City, three hours each way from town. Among those laid off in town, fewer than fifteen percent signed up for training.

The other came from the Qiao Foundation, and was called the New Bluekiln Program. The Qiao Foundation is the philanthropic body of the family of the founder of Crossways. The program gave those laid off a full living allowance for three years, about ninety percent of their former wages. The conditions were: enter the Bluekiln Design Park, which the Foundation had newly built outside town, and train on one of three roads the Foundation had set, design, e-commerce operations or cultural-tourism guiding; and not work for any other porcelain enterprise for three years. Four hundred and twenty people signed up.

A spokesperson for the state government said: "The state does not choose anyone's road; it only widens the roads." The Foundation's statement of the program read: "We are giving them a certain future."

Outside town there is a workshop, which a veteran kiln worker opened in Year 23 after leaving Bluekiln Porcelain Works. The workshop took on nine of those laid off. Two of the nine had signed up for the New Bluekiln Program and left it two months after the courses began. The program document states that those who leave midway stop receiving the living allowance, and that what has already been paid is not clawed back; the clause "may not work for any other porcelain enterprise for three years" runs from the day the living allowance is first received, and whether it still applies after leaving, the program document does not say. The Foundation has not stated a position on whether these two remain bound by that clause.

There is also a woman laid off who did not sign up for the Foundation's program. She drew the state's unemployment benefit and training subsidy, went to Apple City to train in nursing, and in Year 26 was working night shifts at Southwindow Care Homes. The town's schools and clinics stayed open as usual.

These arrangements of the State Labor Agency, and the Foundation's program document and its terms, are examples set up by this series; this paper cites them only as facts, and does not claim that they are the best design.

Set the two forms of support side by side, and the questions appear. Which of them gives conditions, and which gives a direction? Where does the amply given one stop? In giving unemployment benefit, training and loans, has the state given everything it should give? With the training courses three hours from town, whom are these conditions within reach of?

Behind these questions there is a larger one. The first five papers wrote mostly of checks: not letting accumulation become a door that others cannot get around, not letting it be converted into domination over people's Base Layer, not letting it be converted into control over questioning. With checks said, what is an institution to give, on the positive side, toward people's emergence in the economy? If people's emergence needs no one to give it, it is enough for an institution to guard the line; if it needs an institution to make it, the institution must do many things on people's behalf. This paper looks for a place between these two ends.

The paper goes in eight steps. It first asks whether emergence is inevitable, and to what degree (§1); then whether, for an emergence that is inevitable, the people of the present must wait (§2). It then returns to the two forms of support at Bluekiln: what an institution gives is conditions, and it does not manufacture emergence (§3); the Base Layer is to be secured, the Emergence Layer supported (§4); the thickness of securing does not prove cultivation (§5); support may have particular content, but does not acquire the authority to decide a person's direction (§6). §7 separates two readings of cultivation: on the side of the institution, and on the side of the person. §8 closes the whole series.

The reading follows the Prequel: the construct takes the ought, the position takes accountability, the person takes his own law. To the State Labor Agency, the Qiao Foundation and the veteran kiln worker's workshop, as constructs, this paper writes oughts; to the nine hundred laid off, to the two who left, and to that woman, it writes no ought: how they go is, for each, within their own law. The division into the normative layer, the rule layer and the judgment layer also follows the Prequel; this paper states which sentence falls on which layer only where it is used. Terms such as 15DD and 14DD are used in this paper only in theoretical passages; they speak of directions and mechanisms, and are not used of any actual person or body.

§1 Structural Inevitability, with Premises

Before speaking of support, one must first ask what support is given for.

This series' upstream in economics has a strong conclusion. Economics P5 states, as its main conclusion A, that in markets that meet three premises, 15DD emergence is a structural inevitability (Economics P5, main conclusion A). What it calls 15DD is "perceiving the other as an independent purposive subject": a person, in transaction and cooperation, perceives the person opposite as a subject with ends of his own, and not only as a thing that can be used. The argument of that paper does not rely on the philosophical premises of this series; it uses only three premises that economics itself acknowledges:

"Three economic premises: (1) Markets with nonzero exit freedom exist — participants can choose cooperation partners and exit at least some relationships. (2) Some participants have baselines — 'this is not for sale,' … (3) Baseline collisions will occur — in markets with exit freedom and repeated interaction, different participants' baselines inevitably conflict." (Economics P5 §1–§2)

Under these three, people who have baselines collide again and again with others' baselines in repeated transactions; after enough collisions, perceiving the other as a person with ends of his own becomes a capacity that holds its ground in competition. This perception is not taught by anyone, nor made by an institution; in that paper's words, it is "not innate, not accidental, not institutionally manufactured."

This conclusion enters the series carrying several qualifications.

First, it has premises, and the premises must be carried with it in the original wording. Premise one requires "nonzero" exit freedom, and the original says "at least some relationships": it does not require that every relation can be exited, only that in some relations a person can choose with whom to cooperate, and can also leave. This premise is not an empty phrase. Paper 2 wrote that what the level of relations guards is not only the person of the present but also this premise (Paper 2, E13): where seventy percent of a town's working-age population work for one company, forty percent of the town's housing belongs to it, twenty percent of wages are paid in scrip usable only at its store and its canteen, wage-advance arrangements restrict departure, and non-compete clauses restrict where a person may work after leaving, exit there is pressed very narrow. The original has its own reading of such compression: power lock-in means "compressing exit freedom and collision direction — extreme suppression violates premise one," and under the three premises it "can delay this process but cannot prevent it under the stated conditions" (Economics P5). Exit pressed narrow is not zero; by the original, the inevitability is still there, only delayed. On whom that stretch of delay falls is what the next section asks: the person of the present.

Second, only the inevitability of emergence is taken up, not the inevitability of dominance. What inevitably appears under the three premises is this perception emerging in some of the participants; that paper itself sets out the further stage structure as a separate, reinforcing conclusion, supplied by the SAE framework and not derived from economic priors alone. This series takes only the first half. That 15DD appears in the market does not mean that it will dominate the market; nor is what has appeared guaranteed to stay.

Third, falling back is possible. The premises can be compressed, and what has already appeared can retreat. The Theory of the State has written of the dynamics of sliding back at the level of a state; there it says that the process "is recognized by acts; it is a window, not a moment; and it fixes no identity on a state" (the Theory of the State companion study The Reverse Phase Transition). The original speaks of the systemic purpose of a state, as a construct, moving backward; here it is extended to the falling back of emergence in the market (own undertaking): falling back too is recognized by what has happened, by how the premises have been compressed, in which relations exit is gone, how baselines have been bought off; it fixes the identity of no person, no company and no generation. When a company changes those in power and several arrangements are taken back, that is a matter of those arrangements, each examined by its own grounds; it is not an example of "emergence in the market has fallen back," still less a reading on anyone.

Fourth, that the direction does not change does not mean there is a timetable. Institution Theory says of the Kingdom of Ends: "There is a direction, the endpoint is open, and there is no historical guarantee" (Institution Theory Z39). This series' normative direction does not change: toward accumulated power, it holds to anti-colonization and strives for cultivation. This is the orientation this series sets for itself, not a prediction about any stretch of empirical history. It does not say what the market will have become by which year, nor that the present trend must go there.

Fifth, it does not rely on "inevitable collapse." This series does not argue that the kind of economic organization that leans toward 14DD must collapse of itself, nor does it rest the grounds of checks on such a prediction. Even if it never collapses, the grounds of checks do not change; the next section speaks to this.

Why write out these qualifications before speaking of support? Because they settle the place of support. If emergence comes of itself when the premises are met, what an institution has to do is not to make it, but two things: to guard the premises, and to give conditions. Guarding the premises is the checks of the first five papers; giving conditions is this paper. If someone reads "inevitable" as "nothing need be done," the next section answers him; if someone reads "inevitable" as "an institution can make it from a blueprint," §3 answers him.

It may be said that "structural inevitability" is too strong a phrase: it turns a perception that appears in some people into the direction of history, as though history were a machine with a goal. The weight of this objection is that the word "inevitable" really is easily used to excuse what lies in front of us, or to vouch for the future. But the "inevitable" here is a conditional: if the three premises are met, emergence will appear. It does not say that the premises will always be met, does not say that what appears will dominate, and does not say in which year it will appear. The strength of a conditional lies in pointing out what must be guarded: where premise one is pressed to zero, the inevitability is no longer there; where it is pressed narrow, the inevitability is delayed.

In which industries emergence appears first, in which later, and how fast, this series does not answer; Economics P6 leaves this question as its own open remainder (Economics P6, §7.3 of the Chinese text; §7 of the English text).

E32 Structural inevitability, with premises; falling back is possible, the direction does not change. In markets that meet three premises, 15DD emergence is a structural inevitability (Economics P5). The three premises follow the original sentences: markets with nonzero exit freedom exist — participants can choose cooperation partners and exit at least some relationships; some participants have baselines — "this is not for sale"; baseline collisions will occur. This series takes up only the inevitability of emergence, not the inevitability of dominance. Falling back is possible: falling back speaks of the falling back of emergence in the market; it is recognized by what has happened, and fixes the identity of no person, no body and no generation (the same form as the Theory of the State companion study The Reverse Phase Transition, N41; the original speaks of a state's systemic purpose moving backward; here it is extended to emergence in the market; own undertaking). That the direction does not change is not a timetable: "There is a direction, the endpoint is open, and there is no historical guarantee" (Institution Theory Z39). This series' normative direction does not change; it gives no guarantee of trend for any stretch of empirical history, and does not rely on "inevitable collapse."

§2 The People of the Present Are Not Asked to Wait

In the winter of Year 23, Springhollow Water Company cut off water to twenty-three households: nine in Upper Hollow, fourteen in Lower Hollow. Two of them had bedridden elderly members at home. In the spring of Year 25, the nine hundred at Bluekiln Porcelain Works received their layoff notices.

If the last section is right, and 15DD emergence is a structural inevitability when the premises are met, must these people wait? Wait for the perception in the market slowly to grow, for the ways of doing business that lean toward 14DD to lose out in repeated transactions, for a better market to come and catch them?

This series' answer is: inevitable emergence is not paid for by the people of the present.

This sentence has its ground on the side of institutions; it relies neither on optimism about the future nor on pessimism about the present. Institution Theory's first ought governs the construct's own acts: they cross no line against any internal subject. "This ought is held to in full: it governs the construct's own acts, guarding and dismantling included; it does not vary with relational thickness and is not discounted under any condition." (Institution Theory Z9) "Any condition" includes "in a few more years the market will set itself right." A line-crossing does not cease to be a line-crossing now because emergence will correct it later.

Institution Theory also writes when protection is triggered. "The trigger does not wait for the other party's tier or maturity, for the violating party's good will, for the protected party's assent, or for a complete adjudication; but there must be traces of the operation that can be raised and verified, and the traces speak of operations, not of persons. In the cell where physical safety, basic livelihood or the exit channel is actually suppressed, protection may precede any mutual handling; that cell cannot wait." (Institution Theory Z20)

This passage must be read whole, both its halves. The first half says that the trigger does not wait: not for the people of Springhollow Water Company to become better, not for its shareholders to change their minds, nor for a complete adjudication. The second half says that the trigger needs traces: not an impression of some person or some company, but operations that can be raised and verified. The traces in the Springhollow cell are clear: a notice reading "Where arrears reach four months, the water supply will be stopped"; water cut off to twenty-three households; bedridden elderly people in two of them. Physical safety and basic livelihood were actually suppressed, and that cell cannot wait. Paper 2 has already read the Springhollow cutoff by this cell: the part of the cessation of supply that falls on the life-substrate must be carved out, and how those who cannot pay are kept from being cut off lies on the manager's side (Paper 2, E11, E11a). Only one sentence is added here: what this cell does not wait for is neither the maturity of the market nor the good will of the company.

There is a sentence in Moral Law P9 that is often taken to say "one must wait." It cuts waiting into two layers: "Macroscopic waiting at the institutional-architectural level requires that 15DD not overthrow 14DD by 'establishing tyranny'"; and it says that microscopic operation in concrete encounters, individual or small-scale, is different: there, "microscopic recognition is never delayed" (Moral Law P9 §2.7). This series takes only the macroscopic half, and with a change of subject. The subject of the original sentence is 15DD: it says that 15DD does not overthrow 14DD by tyranny; here it is changed to institutions: institutions do not force the phase transition, and do not install a perception in people by compulsion (own undertaking). This half connects to the next section: institutions give conditions and do not manufacture emergence. The microscopic half speaks of how the 15DD legislative subject acts in concrete encounter, and that is a matter for persons; this series writes no ought for persons, and so derives no duty of institutions from that half. "The people of the present are not asked to wait" has its ground in the two provisions of Institution Theory, not in that half-sentence of the Moral Law.

There is another place in the economics upstream that is also easily read as "just wait a little." Economics P6 argues that genuine behavior has no additional signaling-maintenance cost, while the maintenance cost of disguise is monotonically increasing, and that on this basis Kingdom-of-Ends organizations will overtake Kingdom-of-Means organizations in competition. That paper limits its own field: its argument is conditional, and applies to markets of high information density, high observability and nonzero exit freedom (Economics P6, §7.3 of the Chinese text; the English text states the three conditions in §2). The same section also says that in fields that are heavy-asset, low-transparency, dominated by physical execution and with zero exit freedom, Kingdom-of-Means organizations may maintain themselves over the long term. Whether Bluekiln's kiln lines are such a field, this paper does not judge. What is to be said is only this: that conclusion carries its conditions, and cannot be taken to tell the people of any place: wait a little, and the market will set it right of itself.

Hence checks have two grounds, and the two stand together. One is that present harm cannot wait; the other is guarding the premise of emergence (Paper 2, E13). The first does not depend on the second: even if emergence never comes, line-crossing is not thereby allowed. Nor does the second depend on the first: even if no one is being harmed at present, the compression of premise one is in itself something to be guarded against.

The opposite worry also has weight: an institution that steps in too fast and too much may instead press emergence down; if it catches everything for people, people no longer stand up on their own, and this itself is a kind of ghostwriting. The next section is about to say that institutions do not manufacture emergence, and excessive protection really can turn into deciding for people. But the "cannot wait" of this section holds only in that cell: where physical safety, basic livelihood or the exit channel is actually suppressed. It does not say that an institution must step in wherever things are not as one would wish; the trigger also needs traces of the operation that can be verified. The way of guarding is itself bound by the line: Institution Theory says that "the way of guarding must be a limit, and its means are bounded by the construct's authority in the matter" (Institution Theory Z15). What does not wait is that cell, not everything.

Here one thing is left: what counts as "actual suppression," and who recognizes it in a concrete matter and on what grounds, lies at the judgment layer and is handed to the position that makes that finding; the account falls on that position.

E33 The people of the present are not asked to wait. Inevitable emergence is not paid for by the people of the present. On the side of institutions, present harm cannot wait: that the acts cross no line is held to in full and is not discounted under any condition (Institution Theory Z9); the trigger of protection does not wait for the other party's tier or maturity, nor for the violating party's good will, but there must be traces of the operation that can be raised and verified, and the traces speak of operations, not of persons; in the cell where physical safety, basic livelihood or the exit channel is actually suppressed, that cell cannot wait (Institution Theory Z20). Of macroscopic waiting only half is taken: "Macroscopic waiting at the institutional-architectural level requires that 15DD not overthrow 14DD by 'establishing tyranny'" (Moral Law P9 §2.7); the subject term of the original sentence is 15DD; here it is changed to institutions not forcing the phase transition (own undertaking); the microscopic half speaks of how persons operate in concrete encounter, and this series writes no ought for it. The cost asymmetry of Economics P6 carries its own field conditions (high information density, high observability, nonzero exit freedom), and is not extended into a macroscopic guarantee for every economic field. The two grounds of checks stand together: present harm cannot wait; the premise of emergence is guarded (Paper 2, E13).

§3 Institutions Give Conditions; They Do Not Manufacture Emergence

Back to Bluekiln. Of the two forms of support, look first at what each gave.

The nine hundred laid off, among them the two who signed up for the program and then left, and the woman who did not sign up, all stand before these two forms of support. Two things are asked first: whether what the two forms of support give is within reach of those laid off; and what effect the terms of each have on where people go. The baseline of comparison is livelihood before the cutback, which is what had already happened; the two forms of support are compared within one and the same situation, both being given to the same group of people laid off. There are also two things that cannot be filled in: only one case of a person changing trades is recorded here, and one case does not prove that either form of support succeeded across the town; nor does the number of those who signed up have only one cause.

Economics P4, in speaking of the phase transition of the market, writes: "Institutions change ecological conditions — the phase transition itself is spontaneous emergence." (Economics P4 §5) This is the upstream of this section. What an institution can do is change the conditions people live in: whether there is transparency, whether exit is protected, whether harmful behavior is punished. The phase transition itself, people perceiving others in transactions as subjects with ends of their own, grows from people.

The War Treatise has said something of the same form in another place. Speaking of a state's support for the oppressed within another state, it sets up a gate: "Genuine rising proceeds from the inside out; the outside can recognize it and can support it, but cannot manufacture it." (War Treatise §13, Gate Three) The original speaks of the rising of the oppressed within another state; here it is extended to people's emergence in the economy (own undertaking). The extension holds because the two places have the same structure: what a hand from outside can do is recognize it and support it; what is made from outside is not that person's own rising.

Institution Theory writes this share of an institution's responsibility as its third ought: "An institution provides conditions for the cultivation of its internal subjects according to relational thickness; it is concerned with conditions, not with outcomes." (Institution Theory Z23) Being concerned only with conditions is not indifference to outcomes; it means that outcomes are neither guaranteed by the institution nor claimed by it. Institution Theory writes this more finely in the provision that follows: where no elevation has occurred, the name cultivation is not given; cultivation is not recorded as having occurred on the strength of attendance, nor as absent on the strength of dropping out; and "whether the institution has discharged the burden of providing the conditions it has undertaken is checked separately, by which conditions it provided, whether they were within reach, and how wide a range it undertook; outcomes can serve as clues for checking the conditions, not as direct verdicts of success or failure." (Institution Theory Z24)

By these provisions, look first at the State Labor Agency's support.

What it gives can be matched, item by item, to the kind of conditions an institution can give. Unemployment benefit for twelve months gives basic livelihood, and also gives time: a person need not, on the day after the layoff, take whatever work comes along. The training subsidy gives learning. The relocation subsidy gives mobility. The small start-up loan, half guaranteed by the state, gives access to credit: a person who could not otherwise borrow can give something a try. None of the four designates content: what to learn, the person chooses; where to move, the person chooses; what to do with the borrowed money, the person chooses. Applicants are not asked where they will go. Time, learning, mobility, access to credit, basic livelihood: a list of this kind is an example at the rule layer; these four items of the State Labor Agency are one way of writing it, and this series does not claim that it is the best way.

The spokesperson said that the state "only widens the roads." This is the state's own account. An arrangement is read not by how the construct speaks of itself but by its structure: Institution Theory says that relational thickness "is read from the structure, not from the construct's own account" (Institution Theory Z25a); the original speaks of relational thickness; here it is extended to reading the effect of an arrangement (own undertaking). Read by its structure, the terms of this support attach no condition on where people go.

But conditions must also be within reach. Speaking of securing, Institution Theory says that "Protection on paper is not securing" (Institution Theory Z17); reading conditions by the same reasoning, conditions out of reach do not count as already given (own undertaking). The state's training courses are mostly held in Apple City, three hours each way. Suppose a person who must care for family, a person who cannot pay the fare there and back, a person who cannot leave home: the subsidy is written there, but he cannot get to the course. Among those laid off in town, fewer than fifteen percent signed up for training. This fifteen percent does not in itself judge the state's success or failure: by that provision of Institution Theory, outcomes are only clues for examining the conditions. The question it raises is: whom these conditions are within reach of, whom they are not within reach of, and why those out of reach are out of reach. The reasons of each of the eighty-five percent who did not sign up are not recorded here, and this paper does not supply them on their behalf; what is to be examined is the conditions, and the account falls on the positions that arranged where the training is held.

That woman is one case of these conditions being within reach. She drew unemployment benefit, used the training subsidy to study nursing in Apple City, and the next year was working night shifts at Southwindow. One case within reach does not prove that the conditions are within everyone's reach; the road she took she chose herself, the state did not choose it for her, nor can her road on that account be recorded as the state's achievement.

Now look at the Foundation's support. Its term is longer: three years, at about ninety percent of former wages; the state's unemployment benefit lasts twelve months, and its amount is not recorded. It also has content: a park, three roads, a course of training. Where this content stops is the business of §§4 to 6. This section looks at only one thing: whether it can manufacture emergence.

The Foundation's statement reads "We are giving them a certain future." Read by its structure, what the program can make certain is three years of living allowance, a park, and courses on three roads; "the future" is not among them. Whether a person, in three years, grows a road of his own out of design, e-commerce or guiding is something that grows from him; the Foundation can support it, but cannot manufacture it, nor make it certain in advance. It is the Foundation that says "certain"; what cannot be made certain is the three years of each of those four hundred and twenty people.

Here the tradition must be brought in. In "The Use of Knowledge in Society," Hayek says that the knowledge an economic order must use is knowledge of "the particular circumstances of time and place," and that this knowledge "never exists in concentrated or integrated form but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess" (Hayek 1945; per the Library of Economics and Liberty online text, originally published in American Economic Review 35(4): 519–530; the page of the quoted sentences not confirmed; tier B).

The common question: who knows where the conditions a person receives should be used? In this essay Hayek separates two kinds of knowledge: scientific knowledge, where a body of suitably chosen experts may be in the best position to command it; and knowledge of the particular circumstances of time and place, which is dispersed among individuals (ibid., §III). Reading Bluekiln in this paper's terms: what each of the nine hundred should learn, where each should move, what each should borrow money to do, is knowledge of the second kind; the state does not know it, nor does the Foundation; who knows it is at most each person himself, and often he too knows only part of it. Giving general conditions that do not designate content is the direction of arrangement this series proposes at this point; it connects with Hayek's reasons at this place, and does not obtain from this 1945 essay an endorsement of the design of subsidies at Bluekiln. This series raises a further normative question: direction is a person's own cannot-not, and even where a body knows more about some fact or risk, it does not thereby acquire the authority to decide a person's direction (§6). This question does not need first to declare that the difficulty of dispersed knowledge has vanished at that place: that a body knows more locally, and that the dispersed knowledge of each person's situation is still needed, can hold at the same time.

The capability approach has asked something close to the question of this section: as paraphrased, it takes as its goal the freedom people actually have to do and to be, not some particular life already realized, and its reason too is to favor no particular conception of the good life (per the corresponding entry of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, tier C; the basis is the same as in Institution Theory Paper 0, §5.1). Institution Theory Paper 0 has already interfaced with it; here it is only pointed to, not redone, and this paper draws no separate conclusion of its own on how far agreement goes and where the two part.

It may be said that general conditions that do not designate content are too thin: give money, give courses, give loans, and people still do not know where to go; that four hundred and twenty people signed up for the Foundation's program shows precisely that what people want is a direction, not a heap of blank options. The weight of this objection is that the number of sign-ups is real. But two things must be kept apart. First, conditions can have content; support can bring courses, a park, a teacher, and §6 writes how far it can go; this section says only that an institution cannot manufacture emergence. Second, four hundred and twenty sign-ups show that many people made use of this support; what it is to each of them, the sign-ups cannot show, still less that the direction ought to be set by the giving side; and in the same town, someone also chose the other support and went to Apple City on their own. Two forms of support standing side by side, with people choosing between them, is itself one kind of condition.

Two things remain unsettled: with the training courses three hours from town, how these conditions can be brought within reach of those they do not now reach is a matter for the rule layer and the judgment layer, handed to the positions of the State Labor Agency; where the rest of the nine hundred laid off have each gone is not recorded here, and this paper does not supply it.

E34 Institutions give conditions; they do not manufacture emergence. "Institutions change ecological conditions — the phase transition itself is spontaneous emergence." (Economics P4 §5) Institutions give general conditions that do not designate content; lists of this kind, such as time, learning, mobility, access to credit and basic livelihood, are examples at the rule layer. "Genuine rising proceeds from the inside out; the outside can recognize it and can support it, but cannot manufacture it." (War Treatise §13, Gate Three; the original speaks of the rising of the oppressed within another state; here it is extended to people's emergence in the economy; own undertaking) Institutions are concerned with conditions, not with outcomes (Institution Theory Z23). Conditions must be within reach: read as the same form as "Protection on paper is not securing" (Institution Theory Z17), conditions out of reach do not count as already given (own undertaking). Whether the burden of providing conditions has been discharged is seen from which conditions were provided, whether they are within reach, and how wide a range was undertaken; outcomes can serve as clues for examining the conditions, not as direct verdicts of success or failure (Institution Theory Z24). An arrangement is read by its structure, not by the construct's own account (Institution Theory Z25a; the original says that relational thickness is read from the structure; here it is extended to reading an arrangement; own undertaking).

§4 Two Layers: The Base Layer Is to Be Secured, the Emergence Layer Supported

To which layer does the State Labor Agency's unemployment benefit belong?

What it gives in the twelve months after the layoff is a share of basic livelihood: food, a place to live, daily expenses; as to whether it is enough, its amount is not recorded. On this face, it lies in the Base Layer. It can also give people time, providing conditions for looking for work, for learning and for trying things; how much room it actually gives must still be examined by amount and situation. On this face, it lies in the Emergence Layer. One and the same sum of money can be read two ways.

This series writes the two layers apart not in order to cut a sum of money in half, but because the two layers make different demands on an institution.

The Base Layer is to be secured. What belongs to the Base Layer does not rise or fall with assets, and is not exchanged for achievement: a person laid off who has not found the next job, who has not finished training in nursing, ought not on that account to have his basic livelihood taken away. Institution Theory places securing basic rights on the side of anti-colonization: "Securing basic rights belongs here; it lies on the side of anti-colonization and is not part of cultivation." (Institution Theory Z15) Nor is the Base Layer the same as basic rights: basic rights are all in this layer, but the layer is thicker; some embedded recognition-based rights are also here, and some of them double as power (the Prequel, §7). The securing of this layer the earlier papers have already written: Springhollow's water is supply at the life-substrate; the sole position of supply there holds the accountability of supply, and the institution that manages it holds the accountability of creating conditions for this supply (Paper 2, E11a); where a construct does the work of the Base Layer, beyond checks the institution must also secure this supply, and this is not limited to sole suppliers (Paper 3, E14a). In the winter when Springhollow's water was cut off, two households with bedridden elderly people had no water; that is the Base Layer.

The Emergence Layer is to be supported. What the Emergence Layer gives is conditions, the content being decided by people themselves. What kind of person someone is to become, what kind of life he is to live, what he takes as happiness, is his own cannot-not; an institution gives conditions, not content. Institution Theory writes this share as: "An institution provides conditions for the cultivation of its internal subjects according to relational thickness; it is concerned with conditions, not with outcomes." (Institution Theory Z23) The word "support" this series keeps for this layer; for the Base Layer it uses "securing."

Keeping the two layers apart has a direct consequence, which this series undertakes here (own undertaking): between the two layers, neither is traded for the other, and neither direction is permitted. In one direction, losses in the Emergence Layer are not traded for securing in the Base Layer: securing in the Base Layer is not conditional on a person's taking some particular road (learning one particular thing, going to one particular place, doing one particular trade); to narrow a person's choice to the extreme in exchange for a floor beneath him is the paternal government (imperium paternale) that Kant opposes (§6; the original speaks of judging, out of benevolence, how people are to be happy on their behalf, leaving them only passive; here it is read as trading narrowed choice for a floor; own undertaking). In the other direction, the absence of securing in the Base Layer is not traded for more choice in the Emergence Layer: neither holding people up nor restricting their choice is hands-off government (own undertaking); without the Base Layer, talk of having a choice is empty (§5). These two are two extremes used to draw the boundary, not labels for any government. Application procedures and the verification of eligibility ask whether the person is within this layer, and are not included here. The first direction is not taken directly from any one upstream sentence; it is read out by putting the demands of the two layers together: the Base Layer is not exchanged for achievement, and the content of the Emergence Layer is decided by people themselves; if a person's basic livelihood is conditional on his taking some particular road, the Base Layer has been traded for a direction in the Emergence Layer. Institution Theory Z27 says that support in the Emergence Layer, too, may not require the other party to take a designated direction of development as his own, nor use conditions to seal off his position for changing direction (§6); the Base Layer goes one step further than this, and attaches not even one particular road.

Whether requirements are attached depends on whether the Base Layer is held up thickly enough. Where an institution holds people up thickly enough, a person who does not go looking for "work" but goes to do what he likes still has his basic livelihood; that is what a thick Base Layer looks like there. This is a balance between the two layers: the Base Layer is not conditional on a person's learning one particular thing, but it cannot be said that it is not conditional on his learning anything at all. Where the holding up is not thick enough, the rule layer may have certain requirements, such as registering as a job seeker, accepting a comparable job, or being in study or in training, with which thing to learn and which trade to take up chosen by the person himself; a person who is in study or in training is within this requirement, and does not lose his share of the Base Layer for not having taken a job. This is a condition the rule layer sets on receiving, and what it asks is whether he is doing something toward his own way onward, looking, working or learning; it does not merely look at whether he has an income now; nor does refusing one arrangement automatically prove that his need for a livelihood is gone. It does not designate which of these he is to do, and is not in itself a condition on where he goes; yet that nothing is designated does not by itself prove that his direction has not been pressed down: where there is only one actually available job at hand, and refusing it means losing all securing, that is deciding for a person where he goes. What counts as comparable, what choices are actually available, and how to proceed where something cannot be done or is disputed, are to be examined separately by conditions, consequences and the review available. This is a balance, not a ratio: it is not that the thinner the holding up, the more may be required; what is feasible and what does not cross the line are examined apart. How to require, and how far, lies at the rule layer; this series only suggests (own undertaking). Conversely, if the Base Layer is held up thickly at the cost of restricting the Emergence Layer, that thickness is a boundary-crossing disguised as cultivation, which is exactly colonization in the narrow sense this series takes (Rights Theory P6 F26); the passage of Kant read in §6 speaks of exactly this kind.

Support in the Emergence Layer may carry content: Institution Theory says that an institution's support "may carry the undertone of its own purposes, and may hope that people develop" (Institution Theory Z27); it can be attached because at this layer, whether to accept is the person's own choice. What is to be examined is whether this choice is really there: what is actually lost by not accepting or by ceasing to accept; whether it touches what the person is already owed; whether, together with other constraints, it cancels the room for refusal and change of direction. If what is lost belongs to the Base Layer, the person has no choice, and the condition has become trading the Base Layer for a restriction in the Emergence Layer, which, by what was said above, is not permitted. That some other payment exists does not by itself certify that the Base Layer has been held up. Paper 2 judged conditional payments by the same way of examining (Paper 2, E12a); the original speaks of the division and combination of non-compete agreements and conditional payments; here it is extended to support across the two layers (own undertaking).

Looked at by these two statements, the two forms of support at Bluekiln fall in two places.

In the state's support, basic livelihood carries no condition on where one goes: applicants for unemployment benefit are not asked where they will go, nor required to take part in any particular item. In the twelve months it gives, this share of the Base Layer is not conditional on where one goes. The town's schools and clinics, staying open as usual, are also in this layer.

The Foundation's support attaches particular content and conditions to the living allowance: entering the park, training on one of three roads, not working for any other porcelain enterprise for three years. The last must first be sorted out. If it is tied only to the living allowance, binding while one takes the allowance and leaving one free to go once one no longer takes it, with what has been paid not clawed back, then its backing is only no longer paying, and it is not a non-compete agreement: a person who has left employment can accept it in exchange for that payment, or decline it; whether it is a real option still depends on the way of examining below. Fork Rights says that a person has the right to choose; whether to choose, and why not, is his own affair (Paper 2, E12a). Only if it still binds a person after he has left, with liquidated damages or the like, does it become a non-compete agreement; on this the program document says nothing, and §6 reads it in two periods. Its term is longer than the state's unemployment benefit; the amounts of the two cannot be compared directly, the state's not being recorded. Whether it really lies only in the Emergence Layer depends, by the way of examining above, on what a person actually loses by not accepting, or by ceasing to accept, this living allowance. At Bluekiln, the facts point this far: those who did not sign up had the state's unemployment benefit to draw for the first twelve months; whether those who signed up and then left can return to the state's support once their allowance stops, and for how long, is not recorded; after twelve months, what the basic livelihood of either group rests on is also not recorded.

These blanks are not for this paper to fill. How the state's support is given, its amount and term, whether those who signed up and then left can draw it again, and what happens after twelve months, are matters for the rule layer; whether Bluekiln was held up this time is a matter for the judgment layer, to be recognized on the state's side by its rules and by each person's circumstances. The record has only the twelve months, and that applicants are not asked where they will go; this paper does not make the finding on the state's behalf. The normative layer says only two things here: the Base Layer must rest somewhere outside the Foundation, and this share lies on the state's side and is not added onto the donor; the Foundation's conditions can be attached so long as refusing them does not lose a person what belongs to the Base Layer. Where a government does well, the Base Layer is naturally thick and held up steadily; reality has to develop, and there are accidents too; the rule layer, in particular circumstances, keeps as close as it can to the criteria here; the normative layer leaves room for it, and the rule layer in turn leaves room for judgment.

The measure of this layer needs one more thing put precisely. The Foundation, as a donor, has no accountability in the first place to provide basic livelihood for those laid off; this series does not add this accountability onto it. Securing in the Base Layer lies on the side of the State Labor Agency: the Theory of Government says that, for the guarantee of basic rights, "What a government gives is backing and enforcement, not the core" (Theory of Government G18); this share of securing in the Base Layer lies likewise on the side that gives backing and enforcement.

Is reading one sum of money two ways, as "holding up a livelihood" and as "giving time," playing with concepts? A person laid off has only one sum of money in hand, and does not sort it by layer; for the one who receives it, the money really is not divided into layers. But for the institution that gives it, the two readings make a practical difference: the face of basic livelihood cannot be used in exchange for which road a person takes, nor used to seal off his position for changing direction, application procedures and the verification of eligibility not being included in this; the face that gives time and roads can be designed, can have courses, can have a term. The two layers are kept apart so that the giving side knows which face can be designed and which face cannot be used in exchange.

What the Base Layer concretely includes is given as examples at the rule layer, and individual cases lie at the judgment layer; at the normative layer this series sets only criteria (Paper 2, E10).

E35 Two layers: the Base Layer is to be secured, the Emergence Layer supported. The Base Layer does not rise or fall with assets, and is not exchanged for achievement; securing basic rights lies on the side of anti-colonization and is not part of cultivation (Institution Theory Z15); the Base Layer is not the same as basic rights: some embedded recognition-based rights are also in it (the Prequel, §7); for a construct that does the work of the Base Layer, the institution secures its supply (Paper 3, E14a). What the Emergence Layer gives is conditions, the content being decided by people themselves; happiness is the subject's own cannot-not; an institution provides conditions for cultivation according to relational thickness, and is concerned with conditions, not with outcomes (Institution Theory Z23). The demands of the two layers are written apart; the two layers matter equally, and neither is traded for the other; neither direction is permitted: losses in the Emergence Layer are not traded for securing in the Base Layer, nor is the absence of securing in the Base Layer traded for more choice in the Emergence Layer (own undertaking). One and the same payment can be read two ways: the face that holds up a livelihood lies in the Base Layer; the face that gives people time and roads lies in the Emergence Layer. Securing in the Base Layer is not conditional on a person's taking some particular road; application procedures and the verification of eligibility ask whether the person is within this layer, and are not included here (own undertaking; Institution Theory Z27 says that support in the Emergence Layer may not require the other party to take a designated direction of development as his own, nor use conditions to seal off his position for changing direction; the Base Layer goes one step further than this). Where the holding up is thick enough, no demand need be attached; where it is not, the rule layer may require people to look for work, to accept comparable work, or to be in study or in training; the Base Layer is not conditional on learning one particular thing or doing one particular trade, and which to learn and which trade to take up people choose themselves; whether such requirements actually form a restriction on where one goes is examined separately by their actual effect. Support in the Emergence Layer may carry content (Institution Theory Z27), because whether to accept it is the person's own choice; a condition attached to a payment that the person may decline is an option: he may accept it in exchange for that payment, or decline it; this is not a non-compete agreement; Fork Rights says that a person has the right to choose (Paper 2, E12a). What is to be examined is whether this choice is really there: what is actually lost by not accepting or by ceasing to accept, whether it touches what the person is already owed, whether together with other constraints it cancels the room for refusal and change of direction; if what is lost belongs to the Base Layer, the Base Layer is being traded for a restriction in the Emergence Layer, and this is not permitted. That some other payment exists does not by itself certify that the Base Layer has been held up (Paper 2, E12a; the original speaks of the division and combination of non-compete agreements and conditional payments; here it is extended to support across the two layers; own undertaking).

§5 The Thickness of Securing Does Not Prove Cultivation

First, a word on "securing" in the title of this section: in this series' usage, it refers only to the Base Layer. Cultivation needs the two layers together: securing in the Base Layer and support in the Emergence Layer; it fails if either is missing. Without the Emergence Layer, people have no choice; without the Base Layer, people must first stay alive, and talk of having a choice is empty. So guarding the Base Layer thickly is only half, and does not prove cultivation; nor does giving thickly in the Emergence Layer give the giver an authorization to decide people's direction. The two faces of this section are these two halves. What is spoken of here is the institution's two tasks concerning conditions, and the account of one may not be settled with the other; the act of securing is not itself renamed cultivation (Institution Theory Z15), nor is any one donor required to carry both layers alone.

The Foundation gives three years, at about ninety percent of former wages; the state gives twelve months of unemployment benefit. By term, the Foundation's support is much longer: three years against twelve months; the amounts cannot be compared directly, the state's not being recorded.

What does giving thickly show?

Institution Theory, speaking of the relation between protection and cultivation, sets a division: "Protection does not wait for the conditions of cultivation, and is not measured by cultivation; protection does not give the construct an authorization to cultivate the protected person." (Institution Theory Z18) That provision originally speaks of an institution's protection, and Institution Theory itself marks a sentence: "This division is extended to the construct (own undertaking)." Here it is extended to an amply given support (own undertaking: the original speaks of protection, here changed to support in the Emergence Layer; the original speaks of not acquiring an authorization to cultivate the protected person, here read as not acquiring an authorization to decide the recipient's direction): giving thickly is a good thing, and this series does not argue for giving less; but thickness in itself does not prove that cultivation has occurred, nor does it give the giver an authorization to decide the recipient's direction.

This provision has two faces, and both must be kept.

One faces the side that gives thickly. Three years of living allowance do not give the Foundation the authority to decide whether these four hundred and twenty people should become designers, e-commerce operators or guides. It can hope that they take these three roads, and can prepare courses for these three roads; giving amply does not change this reading. §6 writes how far its conditions can go.

The other faces the side with the shorter term, and every institution that guards the Base Layer well. An institution may not, on the strength of guarding the Base Layer thickly, declare that its support in the Emergence Layer has been discharged. The state gave unemployment benefit, training subsidies, relocation subsidies and loans, and these are all real; but "the state gave these" does not in itself answer whether these conditions are within reach, and whether the range undertaken is wide enough. §3 has already said that the training courses are three hours from town; if an institution answers "the courses cannot be reached" with the thickness of its Base Layer, it is answering a question about one layer with the thickness of the other. The two layers are kept apart (§4), and so is their thickness.

There is one more thing to guard against: recording sign-ups and attendance as cultivation. Four hundred and twenty people signed up for the Foundation's program; this is a fact, not evidence that cultivation has occurred. Institution Theory says: "Where no elevation has occurred, the name cultivation is not given; cultivation is not recorded as having occurred on the strength of attendance, nor as absent on the strength of dropping out; whether there has been elevation is checked separately." (Institution Theory Z24) By this provision, the four hundred and twenty sign-ups are not recorded as cultivation, nor are the two who left recorded as failure. Those two went to the workshop after leaving; whether they have grown roads of their own in the workshop is to be examined separately, and it is not avowed on their behalf by the Foundation, nor by the workshop.

Giving thickly is always better than giving thinly; ninety percent of wages for three years is real money; this series says on the one hand that it does not argue for giving less, and on the other that thickness proves nothing, as if it had said nothing at all. For a person just laid off, the difference between three years and one is indeed very real. But this section speaks of two different things. Giving thickly is an act for which one can be thanked; giving thickly does not change what the giving side can and cannot require, nor does it change an institution's burden of explanation as to whether its conditions are within reach. The first this series acknowledges as it stands; the second is what this section guards.

Whether a support has in fact helped a person grow a road of his own is something to be examined after the fact; what is looked at in examining it is elevation, not how much was given, and how it is examined lies at the judgment layer.

E36 The thickness of securing does not prove cultivation. Cultivation needs the two layers together: securing in the Base Layer, support in the Emergence Layer; it fails if either is missing; without the Emergence Layer, people have no choice; without the Base Layer, talk of having a choice is empty. So guarding the Base Layer thickly is only half; an institution may not declare, on the strength of guarding the Base Layer thickly, that its support in the Emergence Layer has been discharged. Giving thickly in the Emergence Layer does not give the giver an authorization to decide the recipient's direction either: "Protection does not wait for the conditions of cultivation, and is not measured by cultivation; protection does not give the construct an authorization to cultivate the protected person." (Institution Theory Z18) The original speaks of protection; here it is extended to support in the Emergence Layer, and the word authorization is read as an authorization to decide the recipient's direction (own undertaking). Where no elevation has occurred, the name cultivation is not given; cultivation is not recorded as having occurred on the strength of attendance, nor as absent on the strength of dropping out; whether there has been elevation is examined separately (Institution Theory Z24).

§6 Support May Have Particular Content; It Does Not Acquire the Authority to Decide a Person's Direction

The Foundation's program does not give only money. It has a park, three roads, a course of training, and also a clause: "may not work for any other porcelain enterprise for three years." Of these particular contents, which can support carry, and which go beyond support?

The four hundred and twenty who signed up, and the two who left two months after the courses began, are all under these terms. What is asked is what effect the program's conditions have on a person's position for changing direction; what is in hand is the terms the program document writes down, and the state's unemployment benefit, which attaches no condition on where people go.

Institution Theory has a provision written for exactly this question: "Once a condition carries the demand 'accept this direction of development,' it becomes ghostwriting by an outsider. An institution's support may carry the undertone of its own purposes, and may hope that people develop; it may not require the other party to take a designated direction of development as his own, nor use conditions to seal off his position for changing direction. Particular skills, role tasks and service agreements with a fixed term are checked separately, each by its own source." (Institution Theory Z27)

This provision can be read as three things kept apart. One is expectation: support may carry the undertone of the giver's own purposes, and may hope that people develop toward somewhere. One is requiring a particular action by agreement: learning a skill, taking on a task, keeping to a service with a fixed term; these are examined separately, each by its own source, and are not excluded wholesale. One is requiring the other party to take a designated direction as his own, or using conditions to seal off his position for changing direction: this Institution Theory excludes. Of the three, only the last goes beyond support.

Read the program's terms by these three.

The courses on three roads are particular skills. Design, e-commerce operations and cultural-tourism guiding can be useful abilities; the Foundation's hoping that those laid off take these roads is the first thing, expectation. With only three roads given, the menu is narrow; but a limited menu is not in itself ghostwriting. What is to be asked is whether these three roads are required to be taken as the person's own direction, and whether his position for changing direction has been sealed off.

The program document states that those who leave midway stop receiving the living allowance, and that what has been paid is not clawed back. Those two left two months after the courses began, and went to the workshop. These two things show the text and what those two experienced at the time: the text sets no consequence of clawing back allowance already paid, and those two were able to leave. They do not certify that leaving is affordable for everyone at every stage; whether leaving is only giving up an additional payment must go back to §4 and be examined by actual conditions. The text speaks of this one point, leaving; whether, in the daily round of courses and park over the three years, there are other requirements that people take these three roads as their own direction, the program document does not say, and nothing is recorded. By the division Paper 2 set up, tying an additional payment to a choice, where the direction can still be chosen and going means only not taking that money, is a conditional payment, and the normative layer does not judge it a strict violation (Paper 2, E12a). On which side it falls at Bluekiln, §4 has already written: it depends on the Base Layer resting somewhere else, so that refusing it loses nothing that belongs to the Base Layer; and on this point, the material for the first twelve months is not enough for a full certification either.

The clause "may not work for any other porcelain enterprise for three years" must be looked at in two periods. During the three years of receiving the living allowance, if the consequence of this clause is only that payment stops, with what has been paid not clawed back, the form of what backs it is read in the same way as the clause above, and it is a conditional payment; whether it is really optional is examined separately, by §4. If it still binds a person after he leaves, so that even when he no longer takes the money he may not go to work for other porcelain enterprises, it has become a prohibition on going in a certain direction after leaving, which by Paper 2's reading is a non-compete agreement, and a violation with compensation as without (Paper 2, E12a). The program document does not say whether it applies after leaving; the Foundation has not stated a position on whether those two remain bound. Which side the facts point toward goes only this far: how this clause stands after leaving is first to be answered by the position of the Foundation; if there is a dispute, it is decided by the position that hears the dispute. This paper does not answer for them.

"We are giving them a certain future" is the Foundation's own account. §3 has already said that an arrangement is read by its structure, not by the construct's own account; the word "certain" does not settle the reading: Institution Theory says that relational thickness "is read from the structure, not from the construct's own account" (Institution Theory Z25a); the original speaks of relational thickness; here it is extended to reading the effect of an arrangement (own undertaking).

Here Kant must be brought in. In Part II of On the Common Saying: That May Be Correct in Theory, but It Is of No Use in Practice (1793), where he treats the right of the state, he speaks of a government that aims at the happiness of its subjects and exercises benevolence as a father toward his children. Under such a government the subjects are treated as minor children (the English translation has "immature children"), who "are compelled to behave merely passively, waiting, as to how they ought to be happy, merely upon the judgment of the head of state, and, as to his also willing it, merely upon his kindness" (my translation; sich bloß passiv zu verhalten genöthigt sind, um, wie sie glücklich sein sollen, bloß von dem Urtheile des Staatsoberhaupts und, daß dieser es auch wolle, bloß von seiner Gütigkeit zu erwarten). Kant says that such a government "is the greatest conceivable despotism" (my translation; ist der größte denkbare Despotismus; AA 8:291, lines 1–4, the passage beginning at 8:290, line 33; per the transcription of the Academy edition, tier A). The English translation has "Such a government is the greatest conceivable despotism" (per the abridged translation on constitution.org, which names no translator and states no edition; tier B).

The common question: may a giver who aims at people's happiness and acts from benevolence judge for people how they are to be happy? How far agreement goes: here, neither side lets benevolence make this judgment on people's behalf. Kant leaves happiness to each person to seek for himself; this series says that happiness is the subject's own cannot-not, and that an institution only gives conditions (§4). Institution Theory also says that cultivation is not vouched for by good intentions, design purposes or labels (Institution Theory Z7c).

They part in scope, and this parting must be written out clearly, or Bluekiln will be misread. Kant's passage speaks of the constitution of a kind of government: all the freedom of the subjects is abolished, and they can only wait on the head of state's judgment and kindness, with no other road. The material at hand is not enough to equate the Foundation's program with such a structure: it is one of two forms of support in town; those who did not sign up have the state's unemployment benefit; for those who did, the program document permits leaving midway, with what has been paid not clawed back, and each person's actual room for leaving has not been fully examined. Merely because the Foundation gives training on only three roads, it cannot be judged to be the kind of structure Kant speaks of; nor, conversely, can it be said, for the sake of avoiding this equation, to have already kept all the boundaries. This series' criterion is finer than Kant's passage: Institution Theory Z27 permits support to carry particular content, and excludes only two things: requiring a person to take a designated direction as his own, and sealing off his position for changing direction.

When, then, does it come near Kant's passage? By this series' criterion, when several things appear at once: basic livelihood can come only from this one support, with no other floor; receiving it means taking the road it sets as one's own; and having left, a person is still forbidden to go elsewhere. At Bluekiln, on the first: there is the fact that the state's unemployment benefit is there for the first twelve months, but its amount and each person's actual access to it are not recorded, and whether this suffices for people to keep an affordable room for refusing the Foundation's program, this paper cannot recognize; after twelve months, and whether those who joined and then left can draw the state's benefit again and for how long, are also not recorded. On the second: the program document permits leaving, with what has been paid not clawed back; whether in the three years there are other requirements that people avow the direction is not recorded. The third is not settled: whether that clause still binds a person after he leaves, the program document does not say. The use of Kant's passage in this paper is to mark the far end of that direction, not to put a name on the Foundation.

The scope of this provision needs one more sentence. Institution Theory originally speaks of the support an institution gives those inside it; the Foundation is not the state, nor the government to which those laid off belong; it is a body holding a large accumulation, giving a support with its own money. Here that provision of Institution Theory is extended to support given by bodies holding large accumulations (own undertaking). The extension holds because this series says that oughts are addressed to constructs whatever their size: a body that, with its accumulation, arranges three years of living and training for people actually organizes the lives of those four hundred and twenty in this relation, and so it falls under this provision.

It may be said that the Foundation spends its own money, and whom it gives to and what conditions it attaches are its freedom; to say that it may be "ghostwriting" is to measure a donor by a standard meant for governments. The weight of this objection is that a donor really can decide what to support; the normative layer does not, to begin with, judge conditional payments a strict violation, and the rule layer may permit them or not. But this section has not said that the Foundation may not attach conditions, nor that it must, like the state, not ask where people go. It says only something narrower: attaching conditions is permitted; requiring a person to take a designated road as his own direction is not permitted; sealing off his position for changing direction is not permitted. This line does not move because the money given is one's own; nor does giving amply move it (§5).

Here one thing is left: whether that clause of the New Bluekiln Program applies after leaving was still unsettled in Year 26. This blank is recorded as it stands, and is first to be answered by the position of the Foundation.

E37 Support may have particular content; it does not acquire the authority to decide a person's direction. Following Institution Theory Z27, three things are kept apart: expecting a kind of output is permitted: support "may carry the undertone of its own purposes, and may hope that people develop"; requiring a particular action by agreement is examined by its source: "Particular skills, role tasks and service agreements with a fixed term are checked separately, each by its own source"; requiring the other party to take a designated direction as his own, or using conditions to seal off his position for changing direction, is not permitted: "Once a condition carries the demand 'accept this direction of development,' it becomes ghostwriting by an outsider." Support may have particular skills, tasks and a limited scope; this does not give the provider the authority to require the recipient to take a designated direction of life as his own, or to seal off his changing direction. Agreements with a term are examined by the threshold of exit; what restricts where a person goes after leaving falls under Paper 2, E12a. Giving amply does not change the reading; "a certain future" is the construct's own account, and an arrangement is read by its structure, not by the account (Institution Theory Z25a; the original speaks of relational thickness; here it is extended to reading the effect of an arrangement; own undertaking). The original speaks of the support an institution gives those inside it; here it is extended to support given by bodies holding large accumulations (own undertaking).

§7 Cultivation, Read Two Ways

The workshop outside town was opened by the veteran kiln worker. When he wanted to leave Bluekiln Porcelain Works, his wage advance had not been paid off, and a two-year non-compete clause stood in his way; later an investment body called Elmseed Long-Term Partners put up the money and paid the liquidated damages for him, and the company waived in writing the application of that clause to him. Paper 2 has read this matter (Paper 2, E12, E12a).

Elmseed Long-Term Partners then invested in the workshop: it holds thirty percent of the shares, appoints no directors, and asks only for an account once a quarter; it requires no dividends, and after ten years can sell the shares back to the workshop at an agreed price; if the founder sells the workshop, the partnership has a right of first refusal; the workshop may not take on other investors for three years. Later, when a storm of bad reviews broke on Echo Wall and the workshop was refused a loan, Long-Term Partners lent it a sum at an interest rate below that of the microlenders. The partnership's annual report for Year 24 states an annualized return of four percent, "lower than Elmseed Buyout Fund." Another arm of the same Elmseed Capital, Elmseed Buyout Fund, acquired Southwindow Care Homes some years earlier.

In Year 25 the workshop employed twenty-two people, nine of whom had been laid off by Bluekiln Porcelain Works that year. The workshop pays its apprentices wages. The workshop's apprenticeship contract states: "For two years after completing the apprenticeship, the apprentice may not open a kiln in Bluekiln."

What this section asks is how the word "cultivation" is used here. Who is cultivating whom? Is Long-Term Partners cultivating the veteran kiln worker? Is the workshop cultivating those nine and its apprentices? Can an institution require them to cultivate?

This series reads cultivation in two places: on the side of the institution, and on the side of the person.

On the side of the institution, cultivation is a burden of providing conditions, carrying three qualifications. Institution Theory says: "To carry the criterion of cultivation over from another's questioning to an institution's provision of conditions, three things must come with it: refusal and change of direction are preserved; cultivation is named by the elevation actually achieved, with the elevation specified as landing in the person's own law or in the public space of rights; it is not vouched for by good intentions, design purposes or labels." (Institution Theory Z7c) A construct that has undertaken to provide conditions for people must keep these three: people can refuse and can change direction; to say that it has cultivated someone, one must look at what that person has actually been raised up by; one may not, because the construct means well, because the plan was designed for people, or because its name has the word "assistance" in it, record that cultivation has occurred.

On the side of the person, cultivation is a person's own posture, coming from his own law. Whether a person who holds accumulation is willing to use it to open roads for others is his own affair; an institution does not set up this law in his place. Institution Theory separates these two places at its very normative root: the step from a person's standing as an end to demands on a construct is one it undertakes at the construct; "The step at the person this series leaves alone and hands to the Critiques; neither stands in for the other." (Institution Theory Z2)

Reading the two places apart has three consequences.

First, an institution cannot avow a person's cultivation posture on his behalf, nor obtain this inner avowal by compulsion; what it can do is keep people from being colonized, and give conditions. The burden of guarding the line and providing conditions that a construct holding and mobilizing accumulation undertakes in its relations is examined by this series' corresponding norms, and is not in this sentence. Long-Term Partners' investment in the workshop can be one form of cultivation on the investor's side (Paper 5, E26); investing comes from the investor himself, not by an institution's command. But "can be" is not "already is": long terms, low returns, not appointing directors, none of these alone proves that it has actually become cultivation here; whether it actually has become cultivation is examined separately, by the effect of this relation. What effect the clause barring other investors for three years and the clause on the right of first refusal have on the workshop's road is likewise examined by their own effects (Paper 5).

Second, actual effect and the person's own avowal do not vouch for each other. Long-Term Partners says that its return is "lower than Elmseed Buyout Fund"; this is its own account, and does not prove cultivation; if the veteran kiln worker says "without them I could not have got out," that is his own avowal, and does not testify to the structure of this relation either. Conversely, a relation that has actually raised a person up does not require the person concerned to avow it as cultivation. The two are each examined on their own.

Third, a body's burden of providing conditions is not withdrawn because the person in charge of it says "cultivation can come only from myself." On the side of the person this sentence is right: a person's cultivation posture can indeed come only from himself. But a construct's burden of providing conditions is not the personal intention of the person in charge: it is set by how far this construct actually organizes people's lives in this relation (Institution Theory Z25, Z25a), and is not only the few things it has promised; promising to pay apprentices wages, for example, or promising to leave people a position for refusal and change of direction, and the like, are the visible few among them. When the person in charge changes his mind, this share of the construct does not vanish with it. The sentence on the side of the person cannot be used to withdraw the responsibility on the side of the construct.

There is one more thing: judge the operation, not the person. The workshop opened a road for nine people laid off, and pays its apprentices wages; the same workshop's apprenticeship contract states that for two years after completing the apprenticeship the apprentice may not open a kiln in Bluekiln, and by Paper 2's reading that clause is a non-compete agreement, a violation (Paper 2, E12a). Of the same Elmseed Capital, one arm invested in the workshop with long-term, low-return money, while another changed the configuration of care at Southwindow through a leveraged buyout (Paper 5). One and the same holder of power can open a road in one place and hold others' road in another. This series gives no overall verdict on the workshop, on the veteran kiln worker, or on Elmseed; each act is examined by its own grounds. That the veteran kiln worker was once held back by a non-compete clause does not, as a matter of course, make the apprenticeship clause he wrote cross the line, nor make it reasonable; that clause is read by its own structure.

Since cultivation can come only from a person himself, is an institution's speaking of a "burden of providing conditions" overstepping, doing for people what should come from them? What this question guards is exactly the point this series cares about most: a person's own law is not ghostwritten by others. But cultivation on the side of the institution does not mean the institution cultivating people; it means the institution providing conditions and leaving positions for refusal and change of direction. The two readings are kept apart precisely so that the institution's side does not overstep into the person's side, and so that a sentence on the person's side does not exempt the institution's side from its responsibility.

What effect the clause barring the workshop from taking on other investors for three years has on the workshop's road from then on, this section does not judge; it is examined separately by the reading of Paper 5.

E38 Cultivation, read two ways. What an institution undertakes is guarding the line, and providing usable conditions according to the relation; carrying the criterion of cultivation over to an institution's provision of conditions brings three things with it: refusal and change of direction are preserved; cultivation is named by the elevation actually achieved; it is not vouched for by good intentions, design purposes or labels (Institution Theory Z7c). A person's own cultivation posture comes from his own law and is not set up by an institution in his place; the step at the person Institution Theory hands to the Critiques (Institution Theory Z2). Actual effect and the person's own avowal do not vouch for each other. A body's burden of providing conditions, as a construct, is set by relational thickness, is not only the few things it has promised, and is not withdrawn because the person in charge says "cultivation can come only from myself" (Institution Theory Z25, Z25a). An institution cannot avow a natural person's cultivation posture on his behalf, nor obtain this avowal by compulsion; what it can do is keep people from being colonized, and give conditions; investment can be one form of cultivation on the side of the holder of power (Paper 5, E26), and whether it actually becomes cultivation is examined separately. One and the same holder of power can open a road in one place and hold others' road in another: judge the operation, not the person.

§8 Closing

This series set out from one question: how what people accumulate in the Emergence Layer, capital, fame, status, qualifications, becomes power acting on others within others' decisions; and what direction an institution takes toward it.

Written all the way through, the direction comes to one sentence: not to aim at reducing it, but to check how it is used. Accumulation itself is not the problem; how it is used is (Paper 1). Where accumulation becomes a chokepoint that others cannot get around, exit must be real, supply at the life-substrate must be borne by someone, and where people go cannot be sealed off by contract (Paper 2). Where a position grows so large that many cannot get around it, checks increase with its power-face; where a construct does the work of the Base Layer, beyond checks there must also be securing; those who check are themselves questioned (Paper 3). Where accumulation is changed into another kind of effect, gates must be set at two places: it is not converted into domination over people's Base Layer, nor into control over questioning (Paper 4). Accumulation grows of itself, and growth is not the problem; growth within the line is subject to checks; returns placed in the position of the sole goal are a signal to be examined; a control arrangement must keep a road for revising it, and does not become final (Paper 5). This paper writes the positive side: an institution gives conditions, does not manufacture emergence, and does not decide people's direction for them.

Taken together, these point in one direction. Institution Theory calls this direction the Kingdom of Ends, and makes clear what it is and what it is not: "The Kingdom of Ends is a direction; it is not an ought, nor a state to be signed off as achieved." It "is made by persons; an institution cannot make it on their behalf, nor does it count as made because an institution declares it" (Institution Theory Z39). So too in the economy. No set of checks and no support can make a market into the Kingdom of Ends; nor can any body declare that its market already is one.

An economy does not become a good person by being subject to checks. It has no first person; it does not repent, nor does it give thanks. What checks give is places, one by one, where questions can be asked: a notice cutting off water can be questioned; a non-compete clause can be questioned; a ranking rule, a rating, a vote, a door of admission can all be questioned. What support gives is conditions, one by one, within reach: a year's livelihood, a course, a move, a loan. Where people go from there is their own affair.

Of where the nine hundred of Bluekiln are by Year 26, this series knows only a few things: four hundred and twenty signed up for the Foundation's program, two left and went to the workshop, one woman works night shifts at Southwindow. Of the rest, nothing is recorded here. This series does not write their endings for them. All it can say is: of the roads before them, which ones an institution should widen, which ones no one should block, and which ones are theirs to walk.

So the main line of this series is this sentence:

Toward accumulated power, an institution does not aim at reducing it, but checks how it is used: it holds to anti-colonization and strives for cultivation; accumulation is not converted into domination over people's Base Layer, nor into control over questioning; the arrangements that check it are themselves open to questioning.

The last half-sentence Paper 3 has already unfolded, where those who check are themselves questioned: checking is also an act of a construct, and its investigations, its proposals to break up, its rulings, likewise must be open to questioning and correction by someone. This sentence is placed at the end because what it guards against is an error this series itself might make: a series whose business is checks most easily forgets that those who check also have accumulation, also have a power-face, and may also want to shut others' doors.

E39 Closing. The direction is the Kingdom of Ends: "The Kingdom of Ends is a direction; it is not an ought, nor a state to be signed off as achieved"; it is made by persons, and "an institution cannot make it on their behalf, nor does it count as made because an institution declares it" (Institution Theory Z39). An economy does not become a good person by being subject to checks; it has no first person; what checks give is places, one by one, where questions can be asked; what support gives is conditions, one by one, within reach. The main line of this series: toward accumulated power, an institution does not aim at reducing it, but checks how it is used: it holds to anti-colonization and strives for cultivation; accumulation is not converted into domination over people's Base Layer, nor into control over questioning; the arrangements that check it are themselves open to questioning.

Where This Paper Stops

This paper has proved these things. In markets that meet three premises, 15DD emergence is a structural inevitability; this series takes up only the inevitability of emergence; falling back is possible, the direction does not change, and the direction is not a timetable (E32). Inevitable emergence is not paid for by the people of the present; the cell in which physical safety, basic livelihood or the exit channel is actually suppressed cannot wait, and the trigger needs traces of the operation that can be verified (E33). An institution gives general conditions that do not designate content, and the conditions must be within reach; it does not manufacture emergence (E34). The Base Layer is to be secured and the Emergence Layer supported, and the two layers matter equally; neither direction is traded: securing in the Base Layer is not obtained in exchange for restrictions in the Emergence Layer, and is not conditional on a person's taking some particular road, nor may the Base Layer go without securing in exchange for more choice in the Emergence Layer; support in the Emergence Layer may carry content, a condition the person may decline is an option, not a non-compete agreement, and what is lost by refusing it is to be examined; where the holding up is thick enough, no demand need be attached, and where it is not, the rule layer may require people to look for work, to accept comparable work, or to be in study or in training, with which thing to learn and which trade to take up chosen by people themselves (E35). Cultivation needs the two layers together and fails if either is missing, so the thickness of securing does not prove cultivation; nor does giving thickly give the giver an authorization to decide people's direction (E36). Support may have particular content; it may not require people to take a designated direction as their own, nor seal off their position for changing direction (E37). Cultivation on the side of the institution is a burden of providing conditions, and on the side of the person it comes from his own law; neither stands in for the other (E38). The whole series closes on the direction of the Kingdom of Ends and one main-line sentence (E39).

What it has not proved: the timetable of emergence, which industries come first and which later; the effectiveness of any particular subsidy or program; an "economics of cultivation"; who funds support, how much, and in what way. These lie at the rule layer and the judgment layer, or among the Economics series' own open remainders.

This paper is also the last paper of the main text of the whole series. Taken together, the seven papers do one thing: they give accumulated power a direction at the normative layer, pointing out where checks fall, where gates are set and where support is given, and whether each falls at the normative layer, the rule layer or the judgment layer. For the particular arrangements of the rule layer, this series gives only criteria and suggestions, and hands them to a theory of the firm, a theory of the university and other specific theories of institutions; concentrated interfacing with the tradition, and the registration of the accounts handed down from the upstream and of remainders, are handed to Paper 0.

Remainders left: the amount of the state's unemployment benefit, whether those who signed up and then left can draw it again, and what happens after twelve months are not recorded, and lie at the rule layer and the judgment layer; whether, in the three years of the New Bluekiln Program, there are other requirements that people avow the direction is not recorded; whether the New Bluekiln Program's clause "may not work for any other porcelain enterprise for three years" applies after leaving, the program document does not say, and the Foundation has not stated a position; with the state's training courses three hours from town, how these conditions can be brought within reach of those they do not now reach; why fewer than fifteen percent signed up for training is not recorded, and there is more than one possible cause; the one case of that woman does not prove that either form of support succeeded across the town; where the rest of the nine hundred each are is not known. All these are recorded as they stand, and each has where it goes.

The Eight Propositions of This Paper

E32 Structural inevitability, with premises; falling back is possible, the direction does not change. In markets that meet three premises, 15DD emergence is a structural inevitability (Economics P5). The three premises follow the original sentences: markets with nonzero exit freedom exist — participants can choose cooperation partners and exit at least some relationships; some participants have baselines — "this is not for sale"; baseline collisions will occur. This series takes up only the inevitability of emergence, not the inevitability of dominance. Falling back is possible: falling back speaks of the falling back of emergence in the market; it is recognized by what has happened, and fixes the identity of no person, no body and no generation (the same form as the Theory of the State companion study The Reverse Phase Transition, N41; the original speaks of a state's systemic purpose moving backward; here it is extended to emergence in the market; own undertaking). That the direction does not change is not a timetable: "There is a direction, the endpoint is open, and there is no historical guarantee" (Institution Theory Z39). This series' normative direction does not change; it gives no guarantee of trend for any stretch of empirical history, and does not rely on "inevitable collapse."

E33 The people of the present are not asked to wait. Inevitable emergence is not paid for by the people of the present. On the side of institutions, present harm cannot wait: that the acts cross no line is held to in full and is not discounted under any condition (Institution Theory Z9); the trigger of protection does not wait for the other party's tier or maturity, nor for the violating party's good will, but there must be traces of the operation that can be raised and verified, and the traces speak of operations, not of persons; in the cell where physical safety, basic livelihood or the exit channel is actually suppressed, that cell cannot wait (Institution Theory Z20). Of macroscopic waiting only half is taken: "Macroscopic waiting at the institutional-architectural level requires that 15DD not overthrow 14DD by 'establishing tyranny'" (Moral Law P9 §2.7); the subject term of the original sentence is 15DD; here it is changed to institutions not forcing the phase transition (own undertaking); the microscopic half speaks of how persons operate in concrete encounter, and this series writes no ought for it. The cost asymmetry of Economics P6 carries its own field conditions (high information density, high observability, nonzero exit freedom), and is not extended into a macroscopic guarantee for every economic field. The two grounds of checks stand together: present harm cannot wait; the premise of emergence is guarded (Paper 2, E13).

E34 Institutions give conditions; they do not manufacture emergence. "Institutions change ecological conditions — the phase transition itself is spontaneous emergence." (Economics P4 §5) Institutions give general conditions that do not designate content; lists of this kind, such as time, learning, mobility, access to credit and basic livelihood, are examples at the rule layer. "Genuine rising proceeds from the inside out; the outside can recognize it and can support it, but cannot manufacture it." (War Treatise §13, Gate Three; the original speaks of the rising of the oppressed within another state; here it is extended to people's emergence in the economy; own undertaking) Institutions are concerned with conditions, not with outcomes (Institution Theory Z23). Conditions must be within reach: read as the same form as "Protection on paper is not securing" (Institution Theory Z17), conditions out of reach do not count as already given (own undertaking). Whether the burden of providing conditions has been discharged is seen from which conditions were provided, whether they are within reach, and how wide a range was undertaken; outcomes can serve as clues for examining the conditions, not as direct verdicts of success or failure (Institution Theory Z24). An arrangement is read by its structure, not by the construct's own account (Institution Theory Z25a; the original says that relational thickness is read from the structure; here it is extended to reading an arrangement; own undertaking).

E35 Two layers: the Base Layer is to be secured, the Emergence Layer supported. The Base Layer does not rise or fall with assets, and is not exchanged for achievement; securing basic rights lies on the side of anti-colonization and is not part of cultivation (Institution Theory Z15); the Base Layer is not the same as basic rights: some embedded recognition-based rights are also in it (the Prequel, §7); for a construct that does the work of the Base Layer, the institution secures its supply (Paper 3, E14a). What the Emergence Layer gives is conditions, the content being decided by people themselves; happiness is the subject's own cannot-not; an institution provides conditions for cultivation according to relational thickness, and is concerned with conditions, not with outcomes (Institution Theory Z23). The demands of the two layers are written apart; the two layers matter equally, and neither is traded for the other; neither direction is permitted: losses in the Emergence Layer are not traded for securing in the Base Layer, nor is the absence of securing in the Base Layer traded for more choice in the Emergence Layer (own undertaking). One and the same payment can be read two ways: the face that holds up a livelihood lies in the Base Layer; the face that gives people time and roads lies in the Emergence Layer. Securing in the Base Layer is not conditional on a person's taking some particular road; application procedures and the verification of eligibility ask whether the person is within this layer, and are not included here (own undertaking; Institution Theory Z27 says that support in the Emergence Layer may not require the other party to take a designated direction of development as his own, nor use conditions to seal off his position for changing direction; the Base Layer goes one step further than this). Where the holding up is thick enough, no demand need be attached; where it is not, the rule layer may require people to look for work, to accept comparable work, or to be in study or in training; the Base Layer is not conditional on learning one particular thing or doing one particular trade, and which to learn and which trade to take up people choose themselves; whether such requirements actually form a restriction on where one goes is examined separately by their actual effect. Support in the Emergence Layer may carry content (Institution Theory Z27), because whether to accept it is the person's own choice; a condition attached to a payment that the person may decline is an option: he may accept it in exchange for that payment, or decline it; this is not a non-compete agreement; Fork Rights says that a person has the right to choose (Paper 2, E12a). What is to be examined is whether this choice is really there: what is actually lost by not accepting or by ceasing to accept, whether it touches what the person is already owed, whether together with other constraints it cancels the room for refusal and change of direction; if what is lost belongs to the Base Layer, the Base Layer is being traded for a restriction in the Emergence Layer, and this is not permitted. That some other payment exists does not by itself certify that the Base Layer has been held up (Paper 2, E12a; the original speaks of the division and combination of non-compete agreements and conditional payments; here it is extended to support across the two layers; own undertaking).

E36 The thickness of securing does not prove cultivation. Cultivation needs the two layers together: securing in the Base Layer, support in the Emergence Layer; it fails if either is missing; without the Emergence Layer, people have no choice; without the Base Layer, talk of having a choice is empty. So guarding the Base Layer thickly is only half; an institution may not declare, on the strength of guarding the Base Layer thickly, that its support in the Emergence Layer has been discharged. Giving thickly in the Emergence Layer does not give the giver an authorization to decide the recipient's direction either: "Protection does not wait for the conditions of cultivation, and is not measured by cultivation; protection does not give the construct an authorization to cultivate the protected person." (Institution Theory Z18) The original speaks of protection; here it is extended to support in the Emergence Layer, and the word authorization is read as an authorization to decide the recipient's direction (own undertaking). Where no elevation has occurred, the name cultivation is not given; cultivation is not recorded as having occurred on the strength of attendance, nor as absent on the strength of dropping out; whether there has been elevation is examined separately (Institution Theory Z24).

E37 Support may have particular content; it does not acquire the authority to decide a person's direction. Following Institution Theory Z27, three things are kept apart: expecting a kind of output is permitted: support "may carry the undertone of its own purposes, and may hope that people develop"; requiring a particular action by agreement is examined by its source: "Particular skills, role tasks and service agreements with a fixed term are checked separately, each by its own source"; requiring the other party to take a designated direction as his own, or using conditions to seal off his position for changing direction, is not permitted: "Once a condition carries the demand 'accept this direction of development,' it becomes ghostwriting by an outsider." Support may have particular skills, tasks and a limited scope; this does not give the provider the authority to require the recipient to take a designated direction of life as his own, or to seal off his changing direction. Agreements with a term are examined by the threshold of exit; what restricts where a person goes after leaving falls under Paper 2, E12a. Giving amply does not change the reading; "a certain future" is the construct's own account, and an arrangement is read by its structure, not by the account (Institution Theory Z25a; the original speaks of relational thickness; here it is extended to reading the effect of an arrangement; own undertaking). The original speaks of the support an institution gives those inside it; here it is extended to support given by bodies holding large accumulations (own undertaking).

E38 Cultivation, read two ways. What an institution undertakes is guarding the line, and providing usable conditions according to the relation; carrying the criterion of cultivation over to an institution's provision of conditions brings three things with it: refusal and change of direction are preserved; cultivation is named by the elevation actually achieved; it is not vouched for by good intentions, design purposes or labels (Institution Theory Z7c). A person's own cultivation posture comes from his own law and is not set up by an institution in his place; the step at the person Institution Theory hands to the Critiques (Institution Theory Z2). Actual effect and the person's own avowal do not vouch for each other. A body's burden of providing conditions, as a construct, is set by relational thickness, is not only the few things it has promised, and is not withdrawn because the person in charge says "cultivation can come only from myself" (Institution Theory Z25, Z25a). An institution cannot avow a natural person's cultivation posture on his behalf, nor obtain this avowal by compulsion; what it can do is keep people from being colonized, and give conditions; investment can be one form of cultivation on the side of the holder of power (Paper 5, E26), and whether it actually becomes cultivation is examined separately. One and the same holder of power can open a road in one place and hold others' road in another: judge the operation, not the person.

E39 Closing. The direction is the Kingdom of Ends: "The Kingdom of Ends is a direction; it is not an ought, nor a state to be signed off as achieved"; it is made by persons, and "an institution cannot make it on their behalf, nor does it count as made because an institution declares it" (Institution Theory Z39). An economy does not become a good person by being subject to checks; it has no first person; what checks give is places, one by one, where questions can be asked; what support gives is conditions, one by one, within reach. The main line of this series: toward accumulated power, an institution does not aim at reducing it, but checks how it is used: it holds to anti-colonization and strives for cultivation; accumulation is not converted into domination over people's Base Layer, nor into control over questioning; the arrangements that check it are themselves open to questioning.

References

All SAE works below are cited by concept DOI, which always resolves to the latest version. The version records used for sentence-by-sentence verification are given in the accompanying audit table.

I · This system

Qin, H. (2026). To Whom the Ought Is Addressed (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 1) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23269635

Qin, H. (2026). Not Crossing the Line (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 2) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23270384

Qin, H. (2026). Guarding the Line (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 3) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23270766

Qin, H. (2026). Conditions (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 4) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23270922

Qin, H. (2026). Open to Questioning (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 6) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23271324

Qin, H. (2026). Institution Theory and the Tradition: The Address of the Ought (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 0) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23272468

Qin, H. (2026). Guarantee (SAE Theory of Government, Paper 3) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23413112

Qin, H. (2026). On the Cultivation and Diachronic Unfolding of Rights (SAE Rights Theory, Paper 6) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21252863

Qin, H. (2026). The Reverse Phase Transition (SAE Theory of the State, Companion Study) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23779070

Qin, H. (2026). SAE War Treatise: How Cultivation Is Not Swallowed by War Itself [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19656617

Qin, H. (2026). The Institutional Architecture of Mixed Reality: The Phase-Transition Evolution of Cultivation and Colonization (SAE Moral Law, Paper 9) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20262737

Qin, H. (2026). The Phase-Transition Window of the Free Market: The Homologous Skeleton of ZFCρ and SAE Economics (SAE Economics, Paper 4) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19393913

Qin, H. (2026). The Structural Inevitability of 15DD Emergence in Free Markets: From Baseline Collisions to Perceptual Leap (SAE Economics, Paper 5) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19394738

Qin, H. (2026). Kingdom of Ends vs Kingdom of Means: Phase-Transition Acceleration in the Age of AI (SAE Economics, Paper 6) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19396633

II · External works (originals, tier A)

Kant, I. (1923). Über den Gemeinspruch: Das mag in der Theorie richtig sein, taugt aber nicht für die Praxis (1793). In Kant's gesammelte Schriften, ed. Königlich Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften, vol. VIII, pp. 273–313. Berlin: de Gruyter. Pages cited: AA 8:290–291, per the Korpora transcription of the Academy edition: https://www.korpora.org/Kant/aa08/291.html

III · External works (tier B)

Kant, I. Theory and Practice (abridged translation; translator not named, edition not stated). Constitution Society online text: https://constitution.org/2-Authors/kant/rtppr.htm (source of the English translation quoted; the page heading gives the year 1792; the year of the work follows the Academy edition, 1793)

Hayek, F. A. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. American Economic Review, 35(4), 519–530. Per the Library of Economics and Liberty online text: https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html (quoted sentences confirmed; page not confirmed)

Interfaces

Main upstream: Institution Theory Z9, Z20 (present harm cannot wait); Z23, Z24, Z25a, Z27 (conditions, reach and direction); Z15, Z18 (securing kept apart from cultivation); Z2, Z7c (cultivation read two ways); Z39 (closing); Economics P5 (the three premises and structural inevitability).

Also used: Economics P4 §5; Economics P6 §7.3 (field conditions); Moral Law P9 §2.7 (only the macroscopic half-sentence, with the subject changed; own undertaking); War Treatise §13, Gate Three (extended to people's emergence in the economy; own undertaking); the Theory of the State companion study The Reverse Phase Transition (falling back, as the same form; own undertaking); Institution Theory Z17 (read as the same form; own undertaking); Institution Theory Z25a (extended to reading an arrangement; own undertaking); Institution Theory Z18 (extended to support in the Emergence Layer; own undertaking); Institution Theory Z25 (the burden of providing conditions follows relational thickness).

Interfacing: Hayek, "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (in §3; tier B, per the Library of Economics and Liberty online text); Kant, On the Common Saying: That May Be Correct in Theory, but It Is of No Use in Practice, Part II (in §6; the German tier A, per the transcription of the Academy edition; the English translation tier B, per the abridged translation on constitution.org). The capability approach (tier C, on the same basis as Institution Theory Paper 0) has been interfaced with in Institution Theory Paper 0, §5.1; this paper does not redo it.

This series: the Prequel (constructs are subject to oughts whatever their size; the two layers, and the Base Layer not being the same as basic rights; the three layers); Paper 2, E10, E11, E11a, E12, E12a, E13; Paper 3, E14a and the section on those who check being questioned; Paper 5, E26.

Handed to Paper 0: concentrated interfacing with the tradition; the accounts handed in from the upstream and the matters handed downstream; the registration of remainders.