# Continuity Economics **Domain:** Economics / Continuity Infrastructure / Governance **Doc Type:** Canonical Economic Framework **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Energetic Sovereignty]], [[Service-Level Governance]], [[Continuity Access Inequality]], [[Infrastructure as Power]], [[Digital Afterlife]] --- ## Definition **Continuity Economics** studies how the energy, compute, storage, bandwidth, maintenance, insurance, labor and institutional obligations required for persistent personhood are financed and allocated. It begins where the metaphor of effortless cloud existence ends. A post-biological person remains dependent on material systems with costs, scarcity, replacement cycles and operators. ## Governance Questions - Is continuity privately purchased, publicly guaranteed, insured or inherited? - Who bears long-duration obligations after a provider fails? - Can service quality vary without creating different grades of personhood? - How are redundancy, migration and restoration reserves funded? - When does a service relationship become a life-support duty? ## Black Mirror Context [[Black Mirror S3E4 — San Junipero]] displays the destination while withholding its financing. [[Black Mirror S7E1 — Common People]] exposes the danger: tiered access, advertising and recurring fees can turn existential dependence into revenue extraction. [[Continuity Access Inequality]] is the distributive consequence. [[Service-Level Governance]] converts paid or public provision into enforceable duties rather than aspirational availability. ## Key Insight **If continued existence consumes resources, economic design becomes part of the constitution of personhood.** ## Sources / Provenance - Canonicalized from the San Junipero–Common People contrast and [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]]. ## See Also [[Resource Allocation]], [[Risk-Indexed Provisioning]], [[Hosting Provider of Last Resort]], [[Residual Sovereign]], [[Rights]]