# 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. ## 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]]