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Consumerium does not seek to artificially alter the functioning of [[market economy]], lazy as we are, we leave that to the politicians. | Consumerium does not seek to artificially alter the functioning of [[market economy]], lazy as we are, we leave that to the politicians. | ||
Consumerium simply aims to make things more transparent to the [[consumer]] so s/he ''can'' see further and | Consumerium simply aims to make things more transparent to the [[consumer]] so s/he ''can'' see further and exert '''[[moral purchasing]] power''' with the same $$$ as before. It is up to the consumer to decide what to do with this enhanced view into economic processes and increased power, if anything. | ||
[[Product]]s in the common case consist of three things: [[Material]], [[Information]] and [[Energy]]. To merge or forge or transform ''materials'' is actually ''embedding information'' into the ''material'' which takes ''energy'' to do. | |||
We would like in particular to avoid [[governance]] problems that arise when we trust our own judgement too much, permit bad examples from elsewhere to be mimicked without justification, allow conflicts of interest, etc. | |||