What do we want?
People as networks of wants, beliefs, trust and other properties, and what that means for how a society finds out what it wants and acts on it.
Every way a society decides together, whether by voting, buying, paying wages or punishing, is an attempt to find out what people want and to act on it. This site starts from the person: what it means to want something, and how wants compare, contradict each other, change and depend on beliefs and on other people. From there it follows a few goals a society could have, and asks where the systems we have today don't listen to what people want.
The Foundations come first. Then there is one article for each goal, and each describes what we observe today. What could be changed is collected in one article of its own, What could be done.
The work is in progress. Several articles are drafts and say so at the top. Many pictures come from small computer models. They sit in boxes marked Illustration: they show what follows from the assumptions written next to them, and they are not evidence about the real world. Every number in them is only meant to be compared with other numbers in the same picture.