#nonquant — Public Fediverse posts

Furthermore, if you just decide not to take payment for your work, in #nonquant #econ, you can just call that investment.

That's actually what you're doing when you volunteer anyway, isn't it?

With #nonquant, I'm not talking about everyone quitting your jobs and installing my software and suddenly utopia.

#nonquant is a way to look at what people are doing every day and why, and how the world works, without talking about money as though it's more than what it is: overhead.

So there is one big plus side of #nonquant #econ. Work that is invisible to classical economics (domestic work, for starters) becomes first class economic activity.

Next, I can say that in a nonquantified economy, potentiation of value can be recognized as investment.
Boom. Education, infrastructure, and preventive health — WHOLE SECTORS crudely shoehorned into the quantified economy — get promoted to their rightful top priority.

A common saying in #economics is, money is what you give; value is what you get.
Does money have value in #nonquant #econ?
Well yeah, if it is relevant to the subjective situation where people are making choices about what is most valuable for them to do at any time (AKA just "choices"), and it is everywhere today, so absolutely.

I am not researching contemporary thought in #nonquant #econ. But I have gone over the fundamentals quite a lot, and I know that the tech to enable this kind of global economy would be quite simple. I'll do my best to describe it, but first, the basics: