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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: | 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 | *[[bad]] not evil | ||
*[[biosphere]] includes terrestrial ecoregions, oceans, atmosphere, is a big body | *[[biosphere]] includes terrestrial ecoregions, oceans, atmosphere, is a big body | ||
*[[body]] | *[[body]] | ||
*[[buy]] can have moral criteria, one can do evil by buying | *[[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]]. | ||
*[[care]] | |||
*[[commodity]] as services - a good backed by standard contracts, trade empire | *[[commodity]] as services - a good backed by standard contracts, trade empire | ||
*[[cost]] only calculable through risk, until you know what is done | *[[cost]] only calculable through risk, until you know what is done | ||
*[[dignity]] implies care | |||
*[[done]] as legal concept | *[[done]] as legal concept | ||
*[[ecology]] of Earth | *[[ecology]] of Earth | ||
*[[ecoregion]] | *[[ecoregion]] | ||
*[[ethic]], singular, how you balance [[rights]] to avoid or reduce [[evil]] | |||
*[[evil]] | *[[evil]] | ||
*[[faction]] agrees what person, safe, fair, done, evil, forgive and ignore mean | *[[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 | *[[fair]] as ecologically founded but socially negotiated | ||
*[[forgive]] | *[[forgive]] | ||
*[[forgiveness]] as measurable | *[[forgiveness]] as measurable | ||
*[[freedom]] implies health | |||
*[[gain]] | |||
*[[good]] as services - a product backed by social custom, legal guarantees | *[[good]] as services - a product backed by social custom, legal guarantees | ||
*[[ignorance]] | *[[ignorance]] | ||
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*[[illth]] is opposite of wealth | *[[illth]] is opposite of wealth | ||
*[[instructional]] responsibility - you tell 'em how, it's your fault | *[[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]] | |||
*[[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]] | *[[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]] | |||
*[[person]] is not always human: could be ape, corporation. legal concept | *[[person]] is not always human: could be ape, corporation. legal concept | ||
*[[regret]] measurable | *[[regret]] measurable | ||
*[[resource]] includes waste | *[[resource]] includes waste | ||
*[[risk]] only basis of cost | *[[risk]] only basis of cost, defined as regret in the future looking back? | ||
*[[service]] includes things states do, e.g. regulate markets, tax, set standards | *[[service]] includes things states do, e.g. regulate markets, tax, set standards | ||
*[[power]] in energy, social, instructional/knowledge/skill, buying sense | *[[power]] in energy, social, instructional/knowledge/skill, buying sense | ||
*[[safe]] as social not objective idea except via ecology to a degree | *[[safe]] as social not objective idea except via ecology to a degree | ||
*[[sell]] can have moral conditions | *[[save]] as rescue, as "savings", i.e. [[store of value]] e.g. as [[money]] | ||
*[[social]] trust | *[[sell]] can have moral conditions, some implied by [[medium of exchange]] | ||
*[[social]] trust, e.g. as quantified by [[social capital]] | |||
*[[threat]] - not tangible, yet anyway, not a [[risk]] | |||
*[[trust]] | |||
*[[truth]] - see examples [http://disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=truth 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 | |||
*[[waste]] as resource | *[[waste]] as resource | ||
*[[wealth]] as well-being | *[[wealth]] as at least mentioning freedom, well-being, health, illth | ||
*[[well]] as root of "wealth" | |||
*[[well-being]] | *[[well-being]] | ||
'' | ''First discussion of these was in [[Talk:urban ecology]] - discuss in [[Talk:glossary]] from now on. '' | ||