Systems

Build your own economy

Pick the answer you actually want on each of the nine axes, from the options real systems already use, and call the result whatever you like. Nothing here is off the menu because somebody disapproves of it.

Two numbers come back, and they do not mean the same thing. Originality is a cost, not a virtue — the further your design sits from anything anyone has tried, the less precedent and the smaller the constituency you inherit, and the harder it is to get anyone behind it.

Coherence is arithmetic, not agreement. You cannot have common ownership and pure price allocation at once, the same way you cannot have a square circle — that is not an unpopular combination, it is an impossible one. Every contradiction the composer finds is shown with the reason it is a contradiction, so you can argue with the reasoning rather than accept a verdict.

The cost is front-loaded and the payoff arrives late, which leaves a real valley in the middle where you have paid and not yet been paid. That is not a penalty for being new. It is what being new is like.

This page never says a design is good or bad, and it does not rank yours against anyone else's. Nothing you compose is scored or sent. If you save a design it is kept on this device and sent nowhere, and a share code contains only the nine choices and the name you typed — nothing about you travels with it.