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everything required to understand money I think
(first try at Consumeriumspeak)
 
(everything required to understand money I think)
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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:
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
*[[bad]] not evil
*[[biosphere]] includes terrestrial ecoregions, oceans, atmosphere, is a big body
*[[biosphere]] includes terrestrial ecoregions, oceans, atmosphere, is a big body
*[[body]]
*[[body]]
*[[buy]] can have moral criteria, one can do evil by buying
*[[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]].
*[[care]]
*[[commodity]] as services - a good backed by standard contracts, trade empire
*[[commodity]] as services - a good backed by standard contracts, trade empire
*[[cost]] only calculable through risk, until you know what is done
*[[cost]] only calculable through risk, until you know what is done
*[[dignity]] implies care
*[[done]] as legal concept
*[[done]] as legal concept
*[[ecology]] of Earth  
*[[ecology]] of Earth  
*[[ecoregion]]
*[[ecoregion]]
*[[ethic]], singular, how you balance [[rights]] to avoid or reduce [[evil]]
*[[evil]]
*[[evil]]
*[[faction]] agrees what person, safe, fair, done, evil, forgive and ignore mean.
*[[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
*[[fair]] as ecologically founded but socially negotiated
*[[forgive]]
*[[forgive]]
*[[forgiveness]] as measurable
*[[forgiveness]] as measurable
*[[freedom]] implies health
*[[gain]]
*[[good]] as services - a product backed by social custom, legal guarantees
*[[good]] as services - a product backed by social custom, legal guarantees
*[[ignorance]]
*[[ignorance]]
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*[[illth]] is opposite of wealth
*[[illth]] is opposite of wealth
*[[instructional]] responsibility - you tell 'em how, it's your fault
*[[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]]
*[[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]]
*[[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]]
*[[person]] is not always human:  could be ape, corporation.  legal concept
*[[person]] is not always human:  could be ape, corporation.  legal concept
*[[regret]] measurable
*[[regret]] measurable
*[[resource]] includes waste
*[[resource]] includes waste
*[[risk]] only basis of cost
*[[risk]] only basis of cost, defined as regret in the future looking back?
*[[service]] includes things states do, e.g. regulate markets, tax, set standards
*[[service]] includes things states do, e.g. regulate markets, tax, set standards
*[[power]] in energy, social, instructional/knowledge/skill, buying sense
*[[power]] in energy, social, instructional/knowledge/skill, buying sense
*[[safe]] as social not objective idea except via ecology to a degree
*[[safe]] as social not objective idea except via ecology to a degree
*[[sell]] can have moral conditions
*[[save]] as rescue, as "savings", i.e. [[store of value]] e.g. as [[money]]
*[[social]] trust
*[[sell]] can have moral conditions, some implied by [[medium of exchange]]
*[[social]] trust, e.g. as quantified by [[social capital]]
*[[threat]] - not tangible, yet anyway, not a [[risk]]
*[[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
*[[waste]] as resource
*[[waste]] as resource
*[[wealth]] as well-being
*[[wealth]] as at least mentioning freedom, well-being, health, illth
*[[well]] as root of "wealth"
*[[well-being]]
*[[well-being]]


''Discussion of these is in [[Talk:urban ecology]] - discuss in [[Talk:glossary]]''
''First discussion of these was in [[Talk:urban ecology]] - discuss in [[Talk:glossary]] from now on.  ''
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