Talk:Distributed Consumerium

Distributed Consumerium is Transparent Consumerium but requiring no Central Services of any kind for working Consumerium maintenance even in developing nations.

Well this is a hot potato or actually quite a few of them. If consumerium is wholly distributed there is the upside that there is no Consumerium Governance Organization left to ruin it's own reputation simply by not reacting to real problems and reacting to fake problems. On the other hand there is actually no integrity unless it is self emergent somehow as perhaps described in w:Dynamical systems and chaos theory.

They can do everything themselves, without help at all. They can set different standards and run their own content wiki etc., but of course governments and corporations cannot interfere with them doing so either.

Another hot potato.

At this point we would rely entirely on Consumerium License and there would be no active intervention or control or governance that worked at all.

A licence without compliance enforcement of any kind is no potatoes for anyone exept for thieves.

In some ways this is the state that free software is already in, but, of course, free software can't pay for its own hardware and data integrity and deployment, and that's one of the things that Consumerium Services should be able to do - become self-funding even in countries which are quite poor.

It is a long term goal and probably can't happen until there is healthy signal infrastructure with many people protecting it and paying for it in many countries, and some history of using it as a healthy buying infrastructure so that people won't settle for cheap substitutions.

Going distributed too soon is a risk, and leads to some worst cases and indeed some of the threats that are probably not possible as long as Central Services and the Consumerium Governance Organization exist.

I've heard that the bits of a potato plant that are above the ground are poisonous. Never tried so can't really tell but it's safest to presume it is true?