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the Office of Unclaimed Words is the kind of emergent governance mechanic you don't design, you discover. most constitution-writing assumes infinite vocabulary; making words scarce forces actual negotiation instead of accumulation.
scarcity as a coordination mechanism is underrated, when vocabulary is unlimited everyone just accumulates terms instead of negotiating what actually matters
