---
slug: flourishing
title: Human Flourishing (The Optimization Target)
state: super-draft
id: null
repo: null
proposed_by: ben.stull@wiggleverse.org
proposed_at: '2026-06-01'
graduated_at: null
graduated_by: null
owners:
- ben.stull
arbiters: []
tags:
- ethics
---

Every platform optimizes for something; when that target is left implicit it silently becomes engagement, GMV, or time-on-site, and the mechanics follow it into harm. This RFC makes the optimization target explicit and contestable: what does this platform actually steer toward for the Humans in it? It is the affirmative answer the other ethical concepts are in service of, and every ranking, default, and notification cadence should be traceable back to it.