Non-cascading standing names the difference between a society where a single failure stays contained and one where it triggers a chain reaction. In the current arrangement, losing a job can mean losing healthcare; losing housing can mean losing the identity documents, mailing address, and connectivity needed to get hired or served; a denial in one system can quietly leak into many others. A person does not merely fall — they fall through several systems at once.
Making standing non-cascading is the least radical and earliest transition move, because it does not require a society to agree that everyone deserves unconditional support; it requires only that a setback not become an expulsion from the ecology. The design goal is simple to state and demanding to build: a person may fall, but not through every floor at the same time. See what backs standing up.