Glossary

The Consumerium glossary is those terms which are closely related to understanding Consumerium's goals. They should be defined in Simple English. Consumerium Concepts can then be defined in terms of the glossary and the 2000 words or so that are in the Simple English.

There are three types of terminology shift that we may need to make to Simple English Wikipedia to make sure that terms are correctly enough defined for us to use in a non-confusing way:

• adding terms that the general public does not yet know, e.g. ecoregion
• narrowing terms that are usually understood too locally, e.g. "safe"
• broadening terms that have many different ways to define, e.g. "fair"

In addition it might be necessary to simply fix definitions of terms that are wrong, e.g. "done" or "person", most people simply do not understand that legal and moral definitions of these can vary widely and drastically.

The preliminary list of terms to ensure are defined correctly and compatibly in all languages, without all of which Consumerium makes no sense or can't work:

• account as in accounting, accountability, unit of account
• bad not evil
• bet is to buy, hedge, invest or just speculate.
• biosphere includes terrestrial ecoregions, oceans, atmosphere, is a big body
• body
• buy can have moral criteria, one can do evil by buying, some implied by simply choosing a certain medium of exchange, e.g. US dollar, gold - buying anything is a form of bet that it will provide some service and do no harm that you will regret
• care
• commodity as services - a good backed by standard contracts, trade empire
• contact - someone you can get in touch with - they may owe you nothing or not do anything for you
  • contact network
• cost only calculable through risk, until you know what is done
• credit
• debt pays back predictably from unpredictable real-life process
• dignity defined only in terms of care
• done as legal concept
• ecology of Earth
• ecoregion
• ethic, singular, how you balance rights to avoid or reduce evil
• evil
• fact is disprovable
• faction agrees what person, safe, fair, done, evil, forgive and ignore mean - social group with one ethic, maybe sharing an approach to negotiating it th other groups in a society?
• fair as ecologically founded but socially negotiated
• forgive
• forgiveness as measurable
• freedom implies health
• gain
• good as services - a product backed by social custom, legal guarantees
• harm
• hedge is to counter-invest so that losses in one thing are made up for by gains in another.
• ignorance
• ignore outcomes you consider evil, which is ignorance, not always bad
• illth is opposite of wealth
• instructional responsibility - you tell 'em how, it's your fault
• interest in the sense of concern or group sharing it, economic gain, and expected time cost of money for standard of deferred payment
• invest is to bet a company will pay off (to its investors) a dividend or higher share price
• justice as broader than w:retributive justice, e.g. w:social justice and other types of w:criminal justice might be meant by it
• measure
• money defined correctly and completely as something that is all of:
  • unit of account
  • store of value
  • medium of exchange
  • standard of deferred payment
• options are bets in financial markets, useful to hedge risk
• person is not always human: could be ape, corporation. legal concept
• power in energy, social, instructional/knowledge/skill, buying sense
  • power grid to distribute electricity
  • power network of those who force change
  • power politics involving military force
• price implies expected quality
• quality as in quality of life
• regret is one way to measure risk
• resource includes waste
• right vs. right, as ordered by ethics
• risk only basis of cost, defined as regret in the future looking back?
• risk aversion is measurable inability to see and avoid regret - when this is done with perfect anticipation, risk aversion is 1, when randomly, risk aversion can rise as high as 4 on average. This is the number of birds in a bush you will pass up.
• safe as social not objective idea except via ecology to a degree
• save as rescue, as "savings", i.e. store of value e.g. as money
• sell can have moral conditions, some implied by medium of exchange
• service includes things states do, e.g. regulate markets, tax, set standards
• social trust, e.g. as quantified or organized in:
  • social capital
  • social contract
  • social network
• speculate is to bet without any intent to hedge or invest in capital.
• threat - not tangible, yet anyway, not a risk
• time horizon - essential to measure regret
• trust
• truth - see examples of definitions of scope of truth and see if Consumerium takes one position and if so how can it be defined in a dictionary generally
• value to, and of, life
• values
• waste as resource
• wealth as at least mentioning freedom, well-being, health, illth
• well as root of "wealth"
• well-being
• wrong vs. right, as settled by morality

First discussion of these was in Talk:urban ecology - discuss in Talk:glossary from now on.

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See also:

• Consumerium Concepts for articles that attempt to define yet abstarct entities that will be expressed in XML or executables.
• Abbreviations for abbreviations used here.