Glossary

The Consumerium glossary is those terms which are closely related to understanding Consumerium's goals.

The purpose of this page is to accomondate three types of terminology shift:

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
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
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 by social capital
speculate is to bet without any intent to hedge or invest in capital.
threat - not tangible, yet anyway, not a risk
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.

See also: