Instrument 06 of 10
Three ledgers
An institution distributes its resources. It also distributes the work of making them real, and the authority to correct the process when it fails. Two institutions identical in the first ledger can be opposites in the other two.
| Ledger | Clinic A | Clinic B |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Resources | $4.2M a year · 11 clinicians · 15-minute slots · one interpreter line | $4.2M a year · 11 clinicians · 15-minute slots · one interpreter line |
| 2 · Who reconciles the rule with the lives it does not fit | The institution redesigns the rule | The person served absorbs it |
| 3 · Who may alter the rule when reconciling keeps failing | The people served can force revision | No one outside the institution |
Identical. No comparison of this ledger will separate them, and this is the ledger the argument is usually held on.
In Clinic B, the person served absorbs the mismatch and cannot alter the rule that produced it. That configuration — the second and third ledgers routed to the same person — is what the essay specifies as domination.
Where the claim is argued
- The Third Distribution not yet published
- Adaptation Asymmetry not yet published
- Dependence Without Domination
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