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slug: participants
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title: 'Participants: Customer, Merchant, Operator'
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state: super-draft
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id: null
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repo: null
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proposed_by: ben.stull@wiggleverse.org
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proposed_at: '2026-06-01'
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graduated_at: null
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graduated_by: null
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owners:
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- ben.stull
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arbiters: []
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tags:
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- commerce
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---
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Every commerce interaction involves Humans in distinct roles — the Customer, the Merchant, and the Operator who runs the platform — and the power between them is unequal. This RFC defines these roles as Humans-in-role (a legal entity such as an LLC is not a Human but is controlled by one), and names the power asymmetry plainly: the Operator holds deploy, data, and float power over everyone else. Naming that asymmetry is what lets later RFCs constrain it; the concept serves Agency and Dignity.
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