Editing Buying criteria

'''Buying criteria''' are reflected in [[preferences|user preferences]] and perhaps in other [[user data]].

There are [[individual buying criteria]], where the buyer has a choice about whether to obey their own rules or not, and [[institutional buying criteria]], which presumably are written down as rules of some [[group entity]] and where the buyer is not spending their own money, thus, they must obey those rules.

There are also [[national buying criteria]] that are required in laws of some countries, that make it illegal for citizens to buy certain things.  These are a special case where there are institutional criteria directing what individuals might do.

Typical factors that may become buying criteria for one of the above:
*[[comprehensive outcome]] of a [[commodity]]'s whole [[service cycle]], e.g. [[coffee]] planting, picking, roasting, grinding, packaging and shipping, or the more processing intensive [[cocoa]],
*hidden [[natural capital]] conversion, e.g. of [[wood]] to make [[charcoal]] resulting in [[deforestation]]
*hidden [[individual capital]] conversion, e.g. [[slave labour]], undervalued [[caring labour]], even [[genocide]]
*use of [[diamond]] or [[tantallum]] in status symbols, making [[ewaste]]
*[[employability]] [[ratio]] - [[labour-intensive]] vs. [[capital-intensive]] ([[intermediate technology]] and [[appropriate technology]]) processes, [[UN Human Development Index]] and [[purchasing power parity]]
*other typical [[safe trade]] criteria, especially as applied to [[food]]
*other typical [[fair trade]] criteria, especially as applied to [[textile]]s