Editing 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
*[[contact]] - someone you can get in touch with - they may owe you nothing or not do anything for you
**[[contact network]]
*[[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]]
*[[option]]s are [[bet]]s in [[financial market]]s, useful to [[hedge]] [[risk]]
*[[person]] is not always human:  could be ape, corporation.  legal concept
*[[power]] in energy, social, instructional/knowledge/skill, buying sense
** [[power grid]] to distribute electricity
** [[power network]] of those who force change
** [[power politics]] involving [[military force]]
*[[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 or organized in:
**[[social capital]]
**[[social contract]]
**[[social network]]
*[[speculate]] is to [[bet]] without any intent to [[hedge]] or [[invest]] in [[capital]].
*[[threat]] - not tangible, yet anyway, not a [[risk]]
*[[time horizon]] - essential to measure [[regret]]
*[[trust]]
*[[truth]] - see examples [http://disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=truth 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.  ''
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===See also:===
* [[Consumerium Concepts]] for articles that attempt to define yet abstarct entities that will be expressed in [[XML]] or [[executables]].
* [[Abbreviations]] for abbreviations used here.