Distributive Equity Through Structure: A Community-Scale Worked Example of Values Stickiness

A body of recent legal scholarship argues that digital platforms exercise a distinct form of power — ecosystem power. This paper documents a single worked example: a community-scale platform (Village, operated by My Digital Sovereignty Limited, Aotearoa New Zealand) whose structural commitments are the enactment of a prior theoretical commitment — that the welfare pathology identified in the research programme is best understood as a values drift pathology, and that structural architecture is the mechanism by which a platform's declared values can be made sticky enough to resist that drift. V1.0 — first reviewed edition. Section 5 (Māori-grounded principles) reviewed by Dr Karaitiana Taiuru and corrected per his feedback. EN PDF rendered via xelatex for scholarly typography. Available in English, Deutsch, Français, Nederlands, and te reo Māori.