The first section — the “free stuff” section — of the new Bill of Rights will guarantee that everyone gets all these essentials. After that can come the “freedom” section of less useful rights that don’t actually give you anything, like freedom of speech (but let’s leave out the one about guns — they’re dangerous; people will shoot their eyes out).
And the brain trust will make it clear that if the “freedom” section ever conflicts with the “free stuff” part, then “free stuff” wins out.
We should also have a big blank space between the two sections, so we can fill in more things as we realize people need them (as happened with modern contraceptives; those didn’t used to exist, and now we know everyone needs those). For instance, maybe in the future there will be great robot butlers, and we’ll want to make sure everyone can have them.
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