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The People Record: A Citizen-Led Approach to Protecting Social Security
Core Concept
The People Record is an independent, crowdsourced system that uses AI and blockchain technology to document and verify Social Security benefits. By collecting records from beneficiaries themselves, this distributed network creates a tamper-proof verification system outside government control that can protect earned benefits against potential institutional degradation.
Why Social Security Is Vulnerable
The $2.8 trillion Social Security Trust Fund, which provides essential income to 69 million Americans, faces threats from deliberate institutional degradation, including staffing cuts, service disruptions, and false claims of fraud and waste. These actions appear to follow a pattern documented in Project 2025 materials: degrade public services to create conditions for privatization, which could transfer billions in management fees and transaction costs to private firms while increasing risk for beneficiaries.
How The People Record Works
1. Beneficiaries upload documentation of their earnings history, benefit calculations, and payment records to a secure platform
2. AI analyzes patterns across thousands of records to reverse-engineer benefit formulas and verify payment accuracy
3. Blockchain technology ultimately creates an immutable, distributed record that cannot be altered or destroyed
4. The system provides verification for individual beneficiaries while documenting overall system performance
5. Pattern recognition identifies anomalies that might indicate manipulation or systematic problems
Benefits Beyond Individual Protection
- Creates deterrence against benefit manipulation through transparent documentation
- Provides evidence for legal challenges if benefits are denied or altered
- Demonstrates the actual efficiency of the current system (less than 1% overhead)
- Preserves institutional knowledge and operational patterns even if official systems are compromised
- Enables collective action based on verified, quantifiable impacts across beneficiary groups
Starting With One, Building To Many
The system begins with individual contributors like you, then scales through community networks, senior organizations, and strategic partnerships. Each new contributor strengthens the system's accuracy and resilience. This citizen-led approach requires no legislative action or institutional permission, making it implementable regardless of political circumstances.
A Model For Democratic Resilience
The approach pioneered with Social Security can be adapted to protect other vulnerable institutions, creating a broader framework for preserving democratic functions through distributed citizen action rather than relying on centralized systems vulnerable to capture.