# Contested concept: social contract

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- **Contestedness**: criterion
- **Diagnosis**: The contestation over the 'social contract' masks a fundamental disagreement about whether human value and rights to economic support are contingent upon labor productivity or are inherent to citizenship.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/social contract` (data: `/concept/social contract.json`)

## Senses in use
- **A formal set of rights and responsibilities between citizens and the state that must ensure well-being regardless of labor contribution.** — used in 2 claim(s)
- **An implicit bargain based on individuals contributing labor in exchange for security and opportunity.** — used in 1 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [Maintaining human well-being in an era of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) requires a formal revisit and potential rewrite of the unde…](/claim/claim_56bb6e60868d.md) _(sense: A formal set of rights and responsibilities between citizens and the state that must ensure well-being regardless of labor contribution.)_
- [The centuries-old implicit social bargain, wherein individuals contribute labor to the economy in exchange for income, security, and social…](/claim/claim_c0cc3b129148.md) _(sense: An implicit bargain based on individuals contributing labor in exchange for security and opportunity.)_
- [Societies should choose to invest in a vision for the future and a social contract that ensures the benefits of progress are shared by ever…](/claim/claim_f4e9fdbee877.md) _(sense: A formal set of rights and responsibilities between citizens and the state that must ensure well-being regardless of labor contribution.)_