# Continuity Access Inequality **Domain:** Justice / Resource Allocation / Continuity **Doc Type:** Canonical Rights Problem **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Continuity Economics]], [[Equitable Resource Allocation]], [[Risk-Indexed Provisioning]], [[Service-Level Governance]], [[Continuity Cutoff Problem]] --- ## Definition **Continuity Access Inequality** is unequal availability, fidelity, durability or protection of the services required to preserve or continue personhood. The inequality can determine not only quality of life but whether a recognized subject remains instantiated at all. ## Forms - exclusion from acquisition or transition; - low-fidelity or incomplete state capture; - advertisement-supported or cognitively intrusive service; - throttled subjective time, embodiment or memory; - weak restoration and redundancy guarantees; - geographic, institutional or provider lock-in; and - inability to migrate when price or terms change. ## Black Mirror Context San Junipero presents continuity as apparently universal and humane but leaves allocation unseen. [[Black Mirror S7E1 — Common People]] makes the hidden political economy explicit by tying cognitive functioning to subscription coverage and higher service tiers. ## Constitutional Function Wealth or provider discretion cannot become unreviewable authority over who continues. A defensible regime requires transparent eligibility, minimum continuity provision, appeals, portability and protections against degradation designed to coerce payment. ## From Service Tiers to Stratification [[wiki/Continuity Service Tiers|Continuity Service Tiers]] can harden ordinary differences in performance into classes or castes of persistence. Higher tiers may accumulate faster subjective time, better memory, stronger legal representation, safer jurisdictions and more reliable restoration, while lower tiers become progressively less capable of contesting the terms that keep them disadvantaged. The inequality is recursive when present service quality determines future earning, evidence and political standing. The [[wiki/Pax Silica|Pax Silica]] framework is relevant where compute, semiconductor access, identity infrastructure and security alliances determine which populations can obtain durable continuity. That connection is analytical rather than proof that any existing alliance has adopted a continuity caste system. ## Key Insight **When infrastructure sustains persons, unequal service can become unequal access to continued existence.** ## Sources / Provenance - Developed from [[Black Mirror S3E4 — San Junipero]], [[Black Mirror S7E1 — Common People]] and the continuity-provisioning corpus. ## See Also [[Automated Allocation Systems]], [[Appeals Mechanisms]], [[Energetic Sovereignty]], [[Continuity Orphan]], [[Rights]]