Tlbic v9.0:A System Built on Vulnerability, Care Ethics, and Bottom‑Up Oversight

TLBIC (Time-Limited Local Basic Income Credit) is a proposed basic income system with three core mechanisms: it expires after a few months to prevent hoarding; it requires no application (support is automatically delivered before a person needs to ask); and it is restricted to the local economy and non‑speculative use. Its purpose is structural—to reduce the despair that comes from feeling there is no way out. This is one attempt to address the systemic despair that contributes to Japan’s tragic loss of over 20,000 lives to suicide each year.

Version 9.0 has now been completed, including a strengthened revision of the section “Integration of Volunteer Activities and Mutual Aid” in Chapter 2 of the main document. I would be sincerely grateful for any feedback from this community.

I am not a policy expert or an economist. I previously worked in a factory, and the loss of a colleague to suicide has remained a central motivation for this work. The proposal was developed almost entirely through long-term dialogue with multiple AI systems (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and DeepL).

Due to the resource constraints of free‑tier AIs—where complex multi-part texts caused the AI to hit its limits or give superficial responses—I have restructured the proposal into three distinct parts to facilitate clearer analysis:

(1) Main Document

(2) Appendix: “Examining Bottom-Up Governance”

(3) Supplement: “Why I Wrote the TLBIC Policy Proposal”

Since I cannot fully verify the linguistic nuances in languages I do not read, any feedback on where the text feels unclear or unnatural would be highly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Links:

TLBIC_Policy_Proposal_v9.0_EN: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DLdrgENE3_udLDO4lgeNXr3EUTx...

TLBIC_Policy_Proposal_v8.1_Appendix_EN: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PIth5Sp6CLnCNbjFPCYkZcNE8cy...

TLBIC_Policy_Proposal_v9.1_Supplement_EN: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o-o8gz5MUgG19juVlULB6ovNR2O...

TLBIC_Policy_Proposal_v8.1_JP: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NI-NOqozTsth5CG96-kEGNF9yv3...

TLBIC_Policy_Proposal_v8.0_Appendix_JP: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kWoxpiLl2u-59-q20xN910xIm3l...

TLBIC_Policy_Proposal_v9.1_Supplement_JP: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ACgOgGmlsfYWiN26-vtmV0OramD...

TLBIC_Policy_Proposal_v8.1_DE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11kC67H9u1YgvQG5gfxdvlJjcmrc...

TLBIC_Policy_Proposal_v8.0_Appendix_DE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fd4TupbGoNjFWmIWDIsV34jD5AB...

TLBIC_Policy_Proposal_v8.0_Supplement_DE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wP3tSkUh5d7PKSKlY95ACWwmgII...

TLBIC_Policy_Proposal_v7.0_TR: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MtiNjQeQO9ilLuEFXwVeKgWOzec...

TLBIC_Policy_Proposal_v5.1_EN (Timor-Leste): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_IiJZsSHRVuIfeHiaz6W_xu7sii...

TLBIC_Policy_Proposal_v4.1_PT (BR): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZdtVTbNQl5y4PlFiLvfmD7UxiU5...

TLBIC_Policy_Proposal_v4.11_ES: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rumXwwBa79RgxNkBe9PoYSRUz6c...