The Monkey List

The Monkey Award is computed over a list, and the list is the award's whole foundation. Change the list and every number changes, so the list is public, short, and hard to get onto.

What is on it

Enacted laws — in force, not proposals — that the movement holds to be core to dismantling representative democracy. These are drawn from the Problem Laws library, and they are the subset of it that is severe enough to be worth publishing about individual people.

Each item carries:

• a frozen key, so it can never quietly become a different law,
• a badness rating, 1 to 100, which is its weight in the arithmetic,
• the citizen goodness vote, which orders the list for readers,
• its vehicle class — was the provision carried by a defence authorisation, an appropriations package, a standalone bill — recorded as context, not arithmetic.

Why the vehicle is context and not math

Damaging provisions ride inside must-pass bills. A citizen deserves to know that a yes vote was a yes on a 4,000-page package that also funded the government. That belongs on the page.

It does not belong in the equation, because the moment it does, every award becomes an argument about how much benefit of the doubt a package earns — and that argument has no floor. So: shown to the reader, absent from the arithmetic.

The role-inversion trap

The same act means opposite things depending on which side of the list an instrument sits. Blocking is the clearest case: blocking a problem law from advancing is good, and blocking a repair from advancing is very bad. They are the same verb.

The classifier handles this by making the instrument's side part of the category rather than something inferred afterwards, which is why there are twelve categories and not four.

Adding to the list

Admission is by proposal and review, like everything else, and it is held to the highest bar in the product — because every addition changes what is published about hundreds of named living people at once.