Post-coital stillness in Hezri’s dimly lit bedroom. The vast bed is draped in dark velvet sheets, the air thick with candle smoke and residual warmth. Morgan lies propped on one elbow, hair tousled. Elise lounges with a gss of water, her posture always that of a strategist even in repose. Priya sits cross-legged near the headboard, sheets wrapped around her wiry frame, eyes sharp and processing. Hezri stands by the window, half-lit, overlooking the city below.
He turns toward them, voice calm but pointed.
HEZRI:
"I'm eliminating the term unemployment from all official nguage. It's a relic of a dying framework. Labor is no longer linear, nor is it bound to waged contracts. We need to stop measuring people by their absorption into corporate mechanisms."
MORGAN: (raising an eyebrow)
"You’re not just pying semantics, right? What’s the substitute? You know journalists will pounce."
HEZRI: (smirks)
"They can pounce. I’ll feed them something softer—‘bor disalignment,’ perhaps. Or ‘non-aligned economic phase.’ But internally? The term dies. Permanently."
PRIYA: (leaning forward)
"It’s elegant, in a way. The concept of ‘unemployment’ presupposes that productivity must be wedded to institutions. But most human energy isn’t captured in GDP. By erasing the term, you're erasing shame—economic exile."
ELISE: (dryly)
"And repcing it with… what? Compulsory community service? Scripted purpose? A new national identity role?"
HEZRI:
"Exactly. Roles—not jobs. Categories of contribution. Some citizens will be in 'economic tency.' Others in 'social incubation.' We redefine value by presence, not by payroll."
MORGAN: (grinning)
"So basically, people who would be unemployed are now in 'tent integration sectors'—a polite way of saying, ‘not working, but we haven’t forgotten you.’"
PRIYA:
"It also allows for economic restructuring. I could model it. People assigned into networks—emergent productivity zones. It’s not about what they do, but where we pce them in the data schema."
ELISE: (tilting her head)
"Language becomes leash and reward. No more unemployment means no more crisis. Just realignment."
HEZRI:
"And the power to define reality. No need to fix poverty if you redefine it as voluntary simplicity. No need to answer to the jobless if the term doesn’t exist."
MORGAN:
"We’ll need a psychological architecture. People don’t just want money. They want purpose."
PRIYA:
"I can build it. Code-based identity overys. Assign purpose through predictive utility scores. Track potential, not output."
HEZRI: (approaching the bed, voice softer)
"This is why I choose you. Not because you serve me. But because you understand that reprogramming society begins with how we name its ghosts."
They fall into silence, the hum of data streams from a monitor flickering in the corner. In that sacred vacuum—between intimacy and ideology—another yer of civilization rewrites itself, one erased term at a time.
Hezri’s voice was calm but weighted with intent, as he rose from the bed, wrapping a deep charcoal robe around his frame. Priya, still seated cross-legged on the couch with her tablet, looked up as he walked toward the tall window overlooking the city lights.
HEZRI:
"You’ve been thinking rural first. I understand the instinct—cleaner systems, less resistance. But I don’t want a b. I want a rupture."
He turned back to her, eyes focused now.
HEZRI (cont'd):
"We control twenty states. That’s not just farmnd and fringe communes anymore—it’s metros, ports, airports, banks, pipelines. We hold the Rust Belt’s bones and the Gulf’s arteries. Start in Louisiana."
PRIYA: (raising a brow, intrigued)
"Louisiana? That’s not a soft entry point. It’s yered—oil, tourism, poverty clusters, cultural insurity…"
HEZRI:
"Exactly. If the model works there, it scales anywhere. Give me an economy with no reference to 'employment' or 'unemployment' in the bayous, in Baton Rouge, in the French Quarter. Repce bor with relevance. Repce jobs with functionality webs. Map informal economies, family networks, spiritual networks, criminal subnets—everything."
PRIYA: (already jotting)
"I’ll need access to underground transaction data, bck market behavior patterns, and church-based food and caregiving circles. Those are real exchanges—they just aren't taxed or tallied. I’ll index them by sustainability and influence."
HEZRI:
"You’ll also need to neutralize the local bor unions. Not destroy—absorb. Turn their representatives into trust managers. Give them access to resource channels, but decouple them from wage logic."
PRIYA: (nodding slowly)
"And schools?"
HEZRI:
"Begin reframing them as capacity guilds, not workforce prep centers. No talk of 'future jobs'—only contribution mapping. Align identity with purpose, not sary."
PRIYA: (thoughtful)
"This will take a stealth phase. I’ll code the model under the name Delta Mesh. Once it’s ready, I’ll run it live through a micro-lending app disguised as flood relief."
HEZRI:
"Good. You have full data privileges. Morgan will coordinate messaging when it’s time to surface it."
He paused, then added with quiet intensity:
HEZRI (cont'd):
"When Louisiana no longer speaks of 'jobs'—only of value—the rest will follow like tributaries to the Mississippi."
Priya nodded once.
She didn’t just have a directive.
She had a revolution to code.
***
Project: Delta Mesh – Phase I: Louisiana Without Employment
Prepared by: Dr. Priya Varma, 6C Secret Economic Advisor
Timeframe: 6 days
Mandate: Design a scable, post-employment economic model tailored to the sociocultural and legal infrastructure of a 6C-controlled Louisiana
I. CORE ASSUMPTION: “Employment” is Obsolete
The model rejects employment/unemployment as economic categories. Instead, it uses:
Functionality Webs – Mapping individuals into decentralized trust-networks based on contribution and demand.
Value Nodes – Individuals, households, or collectives that exchange services or knowledge without wage contracts.
Relevance Indexing – Real-time algorithmic assessment of a citizen’s social, material, and spiritual value-add.
II. CONTEXTUAL VARIABLES (Louisiana Specific)
1. Theocratic Conditions:
Zero Pork: All meat trade is redirected toward hal or vegetarian systems.
Implication: New food cooperatives rise; informal bayou-based aquaculture grows. Fisherfolk become high-value nodes.
Zero Gambling: Casino and lottery bor networks colpse.
Repcement: Faith-based financial mutuals and bartering ptforms proliferate. Risk entertainment rebranded into "probability theology" podcasts and logic-game leagues.
2. Polygamy Law & “Wife Femme Cuse”:
Polygamy Legal: Men may marry multiple women.
Femme Cuse: Wives can legally register unlimited female romantic partners.
These “Femme Pods” may include:
Unmarried women
Widows
Dispced young women avoiding state marriages
Recognized as economic and domestic trust entities.
Impact:
Female-led microeconomies form organically (childcare, healing, garment, digital services).
Femme Pods become essential “distribution nexuses” for rural-to-urban care economies.
Male spouses often contribute materially, but hold diminished domestic authority.
III. MODEL COMPONENTS
A. Sectoral Redesign
Former Sector Delta Mesh Reframe Key Value Nodes
Hospitality Faith Lodging, Femme-run Retreats Femme Pods, Monastic Hosts
Healthcare Spirit-Care Hubs (community + herbal) Lay healers, religious nurses
Education Purpose Guilds, Oral Tradition Loops Elder tutors, Femme councils
Agriculture Community Aquaculture, Pork-Free BioFarms Fisherfolk, vegan co-ops
Energy Decentralized sor + bayou biodiesel initiatives Engineer triads, monastery bs
B. Currency Alternatives
Trust Credits (backed by bor hours + spiritual authority)
Household Tokens (Femme Pods or Poly-Marriage Houses issue them)
Scripture Exchange Points (SEP) for services linked to moral/spiritual value
IV. ENFORCEMENT + RECOGNITION SYSTEMS
HezriNet: Central network scraping real-time relevance data
Relevance Index: Everyone scored weekly based on:
Number of dependencies they support
Daily impact interactions (tracked via temple-based devices)
Spiritual obedience markers (attendance, ritual alignment)
Rewards: Access to travel permits, commune upgrades, pod prestige.
Penalties: Isotion from trade web, devotional duties increase.
V. SCALABILITY FORECAST
Phase II Targets: Arkansas, Mississippi, and West Virginia
Risk Factor: Possible rebellion from former union-strong towns
Mitigation: Co-opt ex-union leaders into Femme Trust Boards
Conclusion:
The Delta Mesh model for Louisiana eliminates “employment” while enhancing cohesion through trust, spiritual hierarchy, and polygamous decentralization. Under Priya's matrix, value becomes divine currency, and bor is redefined as devotion with consequence.
Hezri’s Note (handwritten on top of the final page):
“This is not an economy. This is scripture with algebra.”
***
