The standing guarantee is the framework’s answer to the fair criticism that standing, left as a value, changes nothing: a society can proclaim dignity while letting people become materially disposable. A guarantee closes that gap by stating what a participant can count on and who is obligated to provide it. It has a content side — the baseline conditions of material viability, legal recognizability, institutional reachability, and continued ecological presence (including an open route back into effective participation) — and an enforcement side: law, budgets, measurable service standards, appeals, and independent review, without which the content is philosophy.
Its material part is the floor, delivered as monthly floor credits with five goods pooled in kind and priced by the floor measure. The legal, informational, and civic parts depend more on each society’s institutions, and the guarantee measures whether they actually hold. Its test is blunt: when a participant loses employment, wealth, health, or status, which of these conditions can be taken from them, and by whom? Where the answer is “nearly all of them, by nearly anyone,” there is no guarantee yet — only a sentiment. See what backs standing up.