The Citizens Standard · see the difference
One dollar, set aside and kept. Today’s money loses a little of it every year. The Citizens Standard is built to hold it whole.
After 20 years, inflation has quietly taken 45¢ of every dollar you saved.
Figured at 3% inflation a year — close to the dollar’s long-run average. You can change that, and everything else, in the full engine.
That gap isn’t a forecast or an opinion. It’s just arithmetic — what happens to money that loses a few percent of its value every year, for years on end. The longer you do the responsible thing and save, the more it takes.
And holding its value is only the floor of what the Citizens Standard does. Under it, you’d also receive a citizen dividend and a stable, built-in savings floor — money on top of what you put away yourself. That part is upstairs.
This is one dial out of many. Here’s how the whole system actually works.
How the engine works →A plain-language walk through all four channels — how each is calculated, why inflation falls out the back, and why every one can be set to zero. The full engine is one step further on.