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accounting systems that reliably track disposition and exploitation of capital.

1. What does disposition mean? especially in the context of capital

1. 1. It means how you use what you have, and how it grows or shrinks.

1. I don't see how w:capital(economics) can be expoited. Capital is invested not expoited and the idea is that when invested, capital produces Added value for the investor.

1. 1. That is the capitalist idea. That is not the green or troll idea. To these, the goal is more natural capital and more individual capital and everything else is not alive so exploit it to hell. Does that make sense? You owe the "investor" a better life, not necessarily a higher amount of cash. This works for both "for-profit" and "not-for-profit" paradigms. If you disagree, trolls will bite you on the leg. That is how they defend the green point of view, and the funny garden.

In the process some people will propably get exploited in the sense of not getting a decent compensation for the work they've done compared to the added value they've produced to benefit the investor.

That is w:capitalism, yes. Now, improve it by assuming that people are only exploited to make natural capital grow faster and better, and that is Natural Capitalism. Now, improve it again by assuming that people's individual capital (unique talent) are not exploited but actually renewed, playfully, re-created by this re-recreation of natural capital (like, by w:gardening and such), and you have w:human development theory and the whole idea of w:capital (economics) in the modern sense. This is post-industrialism, which greens and trolls seek.

Globalization of the financing sector has led to a situation where investments tend to go to countries where the price of labor and taxation are low, thus increasing the added value produced for the investor, which of course is exploitation in the Marxist sense.

Yes, and it will get us all killed if we keep thinking this way, because it is degrading w:value of life. Sooner or later those with low life prices come to suicide-bomb thse with high life prices, and then we need the new ways above.

Anyway... If someone has an idea of how capital can be identified (this is a neccessary step to achieve the almost utopian feature of actually tracking capital, please put it in Identifying capital and do bear in mind that there is always the grey economy (tax dodging, pension dodging, falsely claimed subsidies...) and the dark economy (straight out illegal activities like human trafficking, drug trafficking, organ trafficking, illegal arms trade, bribery, money laundering ...) which will slowly, but apparently inevitably (IMHO) make any accounting scheme more and more inconsistent with the reality of things.

It's quite hard to track financial capital and much easier to track natural capital (as ecoregion) and individual capital (identifying people), which opens up the issue of when it's valid to do this tracking - say to prevent asset stripping. See w:accounting reform for more on this.

I'd really love it if we could tackle this "what is money, where does it go, who desides where it goes, what it does there and so forth..." swamp of questions. I don't believe we are going to achieve any concrete stuff in the field of tracing capital but it'd be a fun excercise.

Money is deliberately designed to be hard to trace. It serves four functis, the combination of which makes it nearly impossible. But not all financial capital serves ALL FOUR functions, some of it serves only one or two of the, m and you can track its conversion into the other functions

SNA 1993 (System of National Accounts) is The United Nations Official Shot at Accounting amounts, whereabouts and movements of Financial capital. Designing this was propably not very fun.

I've seen some XML-schema (on a not-up-dated-for-a-year-or-two-type of webpage) somewhere with rantings about implementing this one. It was like w:North-Korea meets w:SEC meets w:Stasi meets w:IRS meets w:RFID meets w:Fahrenheit 451 meets w:Alien invaders who destroy all w:tax havens and w:Swiss bank accounts with their advanced death ray all done in inexplicably complicated XML