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.
Would the following be apropos vis a vis Consumerium?
- 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 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 engineer" clause