Social Co‐OS: Cyber‐human social Co‐operating system

Kato, Tatsuro; Kudo, Yuichiro; Miyakoshi, Junichi; Owa, Misa; Asa, Yasuhiro; Numata, Takashi; Mine, Ryuji; Mizuno, Hiroyuki

doi:10.1049/cps2.12037

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“…Specific examples include worker cooperatives [ 41 ], in which workers hold labor, investment, and management, and platform cooperatives [ 42 , 43 ] and community wealth building [ 44 ], which are based on joint ownership and democratic decision-making by users and workers. To implement the WE economy through information technology, initiatives such as the Social Co-Operating System [ 45 ], which combines an operational loop that promotes cooperative behavior with a collegial loop that supports consensus building, would be useful. To expand the social scale of the WE economy, digital technologies that enable closer face-to-face communication and retention of social context are expected [ 46 , 47 ].…”

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WE economy: Potential of mutual aid distribution based on moral responsibility and risk vulnerability

Kato

2024

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Reducing wealth inequality is a global challenge that requires the transformation of the economic systems that produce inequality. The economic system comprises: (1) gifts and reciprocity, (2) power and redistribution, (3) market exchange, and (4) mutual aid without reciprocal obligations. Current inequality stems from a capitalist economy consisting of (2) and (3). To sublimate (1), the human economy, to (4), the concept of a “mixbiotic society” has been proposed in the philosophical realm. In this society, free and diverse individuals mix, recognize their respective “fundamental incapability,” and sublimate them into “WE” solidarity. Moreover, the economy must have a moral responsibility as a co-adventurer and consider its vulnerability to risk. This study focuses on two factors of mind perception—moral responsibility and risk vulnerability—and proposes a novel wealth distribution model between the two agents following an econophysical approach, whereas the conventional model dealt with redistribution through taxes and institutions. Three models are developed: a joint-venture model in which profit/losses are distributed based on their factors, a redistribution model in which wealth stocks are redistributed periodically based on their factors in the joint-venture model, and a “WE economy” model in which profit/losses are distributed based on the ratio of each other’s factors. A simulation comparison reveals that WE economies are effective in reducing inequality, resilient in normalizing wealth distribution as advantages, and susceptible to free riders as disadvantages. However, this disadvantage can be compensated for by fostering fellowship and using joint ventures. This study presents the effectiveness of moral responsibility and risk vulnerability, complementarity between the WE economy and joint economy, and the direction of the economy in reducing inequality. Future challenges include developing an advanced model based on real economic analysis and economic psychology and promoting its fieldwork for worker coops and platform cooperatives to realize a desirable mixbiotic society.

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WE economy: Potential of mutual aid distribution based on moral responsibility and risk vulnerability

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2024

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“…Still, though the progress toward social innovation will always be confronted by various social challenges [60], we must nevertheless reduce inequalities. This may be achieved in the future through the fusion of human society and information systems, such as platform democracy [61], platform cooperatives [62], and cyber-human social cooperating systems [63].…”

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Wealth Redistribution and Mutual Aid: Comparison Using Equivalent/Non-Equivalent Exchange Models of Econophysics

Kato

2023

Entropy

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Given wealth inequality worldwide, there is an urgent need to identify the mode of wealth exchange through which it arises. To address the research gap regarding models that combine equivalent exchange and redistribution, this study compares an equivalent market exchange with redistribution based on power centers and a non-equivalent exchange with mutual aid using the Polanyi, Graeber, and Karatani modes of exchange. Two new exchange models based on multi-agent interactions are reconstructed following an econophysics-based approach for evaluating the Gini index (inequality) and total exchange (economic flow). Exchange simulations indicate that the evaluation parameter of the total exchange divided by the Gini index can be expressed by the same saturated curvilinear approximate equation using the wealth transfer rate and time period of redistribution, the surplus contribution rate of the wealthy, and the saving rate. However, considering the coercion of taxes and its associated costs and independence based on the morality of mutual aid, a non-equivalent exchange without return obligation is preferred. This is oriented toward Graeber's baseline communism and Karatani's mode of exchange D, with implications for alternatives to the capitalist economy.

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The foundation for future education, teaching, training, learning, and performing infrastructure - The open interoperability conceptual framework approach

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Social Co‐OS: Cyber‐human social Co‐operating system

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WE economy: Potential of mutual aid distribution based on moral responsibility and risk vulnerability

WE economy: Potential of mutual aid distribution based on moral responsibility and risk vulnerability

Wealth Redistribution and Mutual Aid: Comparison Using Equivalent/Non-Equivalent Exchange Models of Econophysics

The foundation for future education, teaching, training, learning, and performing infrastructure - The open interoperability conceptual framework approach

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