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'''Buying criteria''' are reflected in [[preferences|user preferences]] and perhaps in other [[user data]].
'''Buying criteria''' are reflected in [[user data]].


There are [[individual buying criteria]], where the buyer has a choice about whether to obey their own rules or not, and [[institutional buying criteria]], which presumably are written down as rules of some [[group entity]] and where the buyer is not spending their own money, thus, they must obey those rules.
There are [[individual buying criteria]], where the buyer has a choice about whether to obey their own rules or not, and [[institutional buying criteria]], which presumably are written down as rules of some [[group entity]] and where the buyer is not spending their own money, thus, they must obey those rules.
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Typical factors that may become buying criteria for one of the above:
Typical factors that may become buying criteria for one of the above:
*[[comprehensive outcome]] of a [[commodity]]'s whole [[service cycle]], e.g. [[coffee]] planting, picking, roasting, grinding, packaging and shipping, or the more processing intensive [[cocoa]],
*[[comprehensive outcome]] of a [[commodity]]'s whole [[service cycle]], e.g. [[coffee]] planting, picking, roasting, grinding, packaging and shipping, or the more intensive [[cocoa]],
*hidden [[natural capital]] conversion, e.g. of [[wood]] to make [[charcoal]] resulting in [[deforestation]]
*hidden [[natural capital]] conversion, e.g. of [[wood]] to make [[charcoal]] resulting in [[deforestation]]
*hidden [[individual capital]] conversion, e.g. [[slave labour]], undervalued [[caring labour]], even [[genocide]]
*hidden [[individual capital]] conversion, e.g. [[slave labour]], undervalued [[caring labour]], even [[genocide]]
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