Rationing to Life Necessities: A Guide to McMurtry’s Life-Value Compass | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

This document introduces John McMurtry’s Primary Axiom of Life Value and its practical application through the principle of rationing to life necessities. It explains why today’s global system prioritizes profit over survival, creating crises in health, education, economy, governance, and ecology. Drawing on McMurtry’s metaphor of the “cancer stage of capitalism,” the work contrasts the destructive logic of money-sequence growth with the sustaining logic of life-sequence value. For a general audience, the text illustrates these concepts with everyday examples — bottled water versus clean water systems, luxury housing versus homelessness, fossil fuel growth versus climate stability. It argues that rationing to life necessities is not austerity but liberation: the foundation of real freedom, justice, and sustainable development. The document concludes with a call for life-coherent governance, science, and meaning, positioning humanity at a civilizational choice-space between collapse and renewal.

Orchestrating Social Harmony: Insights from Biological Systems | ChatGPT4o

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Can one map the holarchical organization of the human body from cells to organisms to social body?
How can we model the social body functions based on the organism body functions?
Having this alignment of coordination in terms of system functions, what would the alignment look like in terms of organization to form tissues and organs of the social body?
How can we use the wisdom of a healthy human body to model the orchestration of a health social body?
How can life-value onto-axiology further integrate these functional coordinations with these structural organisations with these harmonizing orchestrations to help guide the social host to actualize its most life coherent developmental and evolutionary and transcendental potential?
Can we create an regenerative social body by having the outputs of the the excretory systems being the inputs to the circulation system guided by the metabolic wisdom of energy body budgeting and finding pathways of adjacent possibles for adaptive learnings?
If we focus also on the metabolism of ideas to help create a more adaptive and resilient and antifragile regenerative culture of the social host, how can you this be envisioned?
Can you create several possible titles for articles reflecting the insights here?
Can you create a vibrant image reflecting this?

There is more than one economy | Neva Goodwin (2018)

Human economies can be understood in more than one way.

The private business economy is what economics textbooks are generally about.
The public purpose economy consists of governments and their agencies as well as non-profits and international institutions like the World Bank or the United Nations. The public purpose economy is a collection of institutions that are justified by their stated intention to act for some broader good than their own profit or enrichment – though they may differ widely in their definitions of what is “good”.
The core economy is where households and communities carry on their internal activities of production, distribution and consumption. The core economy’s justification and purpose is the survival and well-being of its members. It is located in home, family, and neighborhood; places that function as markets for emotional, social, and civic transactions. This paper will consider some distinguishing characteristics of these three economies – in particular: their goals or justifications; what currency they use; what kind of demand they respond to; and how they define and reward work.

The second half of the paper will offer reflections on the harms caused by an excessive dominance of the private business economy over the other two, with thoughts on some of what will be required to redress this balance. It will conclude with an image of a healthier relationship between humanity and our natural environment – a relationship that will inevitably come about, whether we choose to move into it positively, or are forced into it by breakdowns in all of our economies resulting from natural and social disasters.