Cash arrives too late.
Institutions move too slowly.
Politics cannot match technological speed.
Even UBI cannot protect people before collapse begins.

This book is not about welfare reform.
Not about housing policy.
Not about utopian futures.

It asks one simple question:

When systems fail, markets freeze, and politics stall —
can a human being still survive?

Physical Sovereignty Floor introduces a radical but practical idea:

Survival must be guaranteed physically, not financially.

Not money — infrastructure.
Not charity — pre-deployed survival conditions.

The Care Pod is not housing.
Not social welfare.
Not charity.
It is civilization’s Safe Mode.

It defines a red line:

No society should allow its people to fall below the conditions of survival.

This is not a vision of a better world.
It is the minimum condition for any world worth calling a civilization.
Physical Sovereignty Floor
Care Pod as Minimum Survival Infrastructure

我們一直以為「失業」是經濟問題，
但事實是——它正在變成生存問題。

當 AI 與自動化永久性消滅工作崗位，
人們不是慢慢下滑，而是直接墜落：
從有工作、有住所、有尊嚴 → 無家、無錨、無社會座標。

現金來不及。
制度反應太慢。
立法週期無法對抗科技速度。
UBI 也無法在崩潰發生前建立「物理安全」。

這本書提出的不是福利制度改革，
不是社會正義口號，
也不是未來主義幻想。

它只提出一個問題：

如果制度失效、市場凍結、政治停擺，
人，還能不能活下來？

《生理主權地板Physical Sovereignty Floor》提出一個極度務實的概念：
生存，必須有「物理底線」，而不是只靠金融承諾。

核心不是金錢，是基礎設施。
不是補貼，是預先部署的生存條件。

Care Pod 不是房子。
不是住宅政策。
不是社福方案。
它是文明的安全模式（Safe Mode）。

它代表一個底線概念：

社會不可以讓任何人，在制度崩潰時，
直接掉出「生存條件」。

這不是烏托邦設計，
不是理想社會藍圖，
而是一條文明底線：

當一切失效時，人仍然要能活著。

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