Editing Talk:Individual buying criteria

There's also non-medical health criteria (like someone who believes that something is bad for them or their family even if a doctor doesn't agree, such as just refusing factory food on grounds you don't know wht's in it), and even [[legal criteria]] (if you are under some obligation to buy only certain types of things, which is usually the case if you are buying for a company or some organization), and probably more... we need some [[user story]] attempts here:  vignettes that describe how Consumerium would really be used in practice to guide certain decisions.
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Would the following be apropos vis a vis Consumerium?

http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~paquetse/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Create_Normative_Specifications_For_Resource_Allocations

:Not under that name, which suggests it's about policy.  But certainly you could treat the creation of such "specifications" as part of [[institutional buying criteria]] and it is absolutely relevant to other questions like [http://recyclopedia.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=monetary_reform monetary reform].

:For example, an institution might choose not to demand or purchase goods that it must compete for against destitute individuals.

::Would this practice of non-competition differ from the ''typically confidential'' non-competition clauses commonly seen in written contracts?

:::Only in that an institution would probably broadcast that it was refusing to compete and raise prices of scarce goods - or, perhaps better, would let poorer people participate and gain economies of scale when institutions buy things.

::::Or the attached strings would include a "no [[reverse engineering|reverse engineer]]" clause