Life First: Monetary Architecture, Structural Violence, and the Case for Viability Budgeting | ChatGPT5.2 & Gemeni (Figures) and NotebookLM

Modern monetary systems are widely treated as neutral coordination mechanisms. Yet the sequencing of fiscal and monetary rules often conditions access to essential life-support systems — water, healthcare, food security, shelter, and infrastructure — on market performance and financial ratios. This paper examines how monetary architecture can contribute to direct, structural, and cultural violence when survival is subordinated to accounting constraints.

Drawing on peace theory, macroeconomics, behavioral research, and public infrastructure governance, the paper distinguishes between real constraints (biophysical and ecological limits) and artificial constraints (institutional or symbolic rules treated as natural laws). It introduces the concept of Viability Budgeting, a fiscal sequencing framework that prioritizes life-support systems before financial optimization.

Through diagnostic models, implementation pathways, and local-to-global scaling strategies, the paper argues that monetary systems can function either as fragility amplifiers or as peace infrastructure. The central claim is not that money is inherently violent, but that its design determines whether it stabilizes or destabilizes society.

Viability-first monetary architecture is presented not as ideological transformation, but as institutional reordering: life first, accounting second.

Modern Monetary Theory and the Future of Canada’s Fiscal Sovereignty | ChatGPT4o

This white paper introduces Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) as a transformative framework for reimagining fiscal policy in Canada. By challenging prevailing myths about deficits, debt, and balanced budgets, MMT reframes the federal government not as a financially constrained household but as a sovereign currency issuer with vast capacity to invest in public goods. Within this framework, the real constraint is not financial solvency but the economy’s productive capacity and inflation thresholds.

Canada, as a monetarily sovereign nation with a floating exchange rate and domestic debt issuance, has the technical and institutional prerequisites to adopt MMT-aligned policies. The paper explores how such policies can address urgent challenges — housing, healthcare, climate, Indigenous justice — by targeting idle capacity and fostering regenerative investment. It integrates MMT with life-value onto-axiology, proposing a new fiscal architecture grounded in coherence, care, and planetary stewardship.

Through historical analysis, policy simulations, and life-centered metrics, this work offers a roadmap for designing a fiscal system that serves the common good without the artificial constraints of outdated economic dogmas.

From Price Stability to Life Coherence Reclaiming Economic Governance through Moral Clarity, Sovereign Capacity, and Regenerative Provisioning | ChatGPT4o

This white paper challenges the prevailing economic orthodoxy that prioritizes inflation control above the provisioning of life’s essential needs. Drawing on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA), it exposes how austerity, inflation panic, and fiscal “discipline” serve to protect capital while depriving people and ecosystems of care. We argue that public finance must be reclaimed as a moral and practical instrument of life coherence, not merely monetary control. This synthesis integrates the technical clarity of MMT with the philosophical depth of LVOA to propose a new economic paradigm: one where sovereign capacity is used to provision sufficiency, where inflation is managed without deprivation, and where metrics reflect what truly matters — human dignity, ecological stability, and systemic wellbeing.

From Price Stability to Life Coherence: Reframing Inflation and Fiscal Policy through the Lens of Life-Needs Provisioning | ChatGPT4o

This white paper challenges the conventional economic doctrine that prioritizes inflation control over the provisioning of life’s essential needs. By integrating insights from Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA), we argue that the dominant fiscal and monetary policies are structured not around the well-being of people or ecosystems, but around the protection of capital. Through a critique of neoliberal assumptions and an exploration of sovereign spending capacity, this paper reframes inflation not as a threat to suppress, but as a constraint to be managed in service of life coherence. We offer a new framework for evaluating economic success, grounded in human dignity, ecological sustainability, and systemic provisioning sufficiency. The goal is a paradigm shift — from scarcity-based governance to regenerative sufficiency grounded in the ethical primacy of life.