A Post-Coercive Socioeconomic Architecture: Eliminating Structural Slavery Through Constraint Redesign

ABSTRACT Despite repeated historical efforts to abolish slavery, coercive dependency continues to re-emerge in modern societies through economic, political, and technological systems. This paper proposes that slavery is not primarily a moral failure but an emergent structural property of systems that condition survival on participation. Drawing on systems theory, anthropology, political economy, and artificial intelligence governance, this paper formalizes a post-coercive societal architecture designed to eliminate the recursive conditions under which slavery reappears. The proposed framework introduces a non-monetary Civic Value Ledger (CVL), unconditional survival guarantees, bounded artificial intelligence optimization, and anti-corruption constraints that together prevent the accumulation of coercive power. Mathematical definitions, simulation logic, failure mode analysis, and institutional design are presented to demonstrate robustness across cultures and over time. The model emphasizes permanence, exit rights, and constraint transparency as the necessary conditions for a civilization that does not reproduce slavery through abstraction.