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P-Civilization Theory: Capital × Praise as a dual-axis framework
- paxiscivlab 11mo agoI'm not an economist, and this isn't academic work. It's a structural attempt from someone outside your field. *The core claim:* Modern economics measures Capital obsessively: GDP, stock prices, quarterly earnings. But civilization depends just as much on contributions that markets can't capture: - Infrastructure maintenance - Care work and child-rearing - Education and basic research - Community cohesion I call this second axis *Praise* — long-term trust credit. *The proposal:* P-Bonds: financial instruments that channel surplus capital to social pain points and pay "interest" in Praise (measured in "bips"), not currency. Examples: - Coastal flood protection (investment-type P-Bond) - Rural digital connectivity (recruitment-type P-Bond) - Nationwide basic income (donation-type P-Bond) *The method:* I wrote this with GPT as my co-author. I define the conceptual constraints, GPT drafts, I refine. 23,000 words across 4 chapters. *What I want to know:* Which existing theories does this resemble, extend, or contradict? - Piketty's r > g? - Ostrom's commons? - Social capital frameworks? - Something else entirely? I'm prepared to be wrong — but I want to understand where this sits in the existing landscape. Table of Contents: [URL]
- paxiscivlab 11mo agoOops — forgot to paste the actual link. Here is the Table of Contents: https://paxiscivlab.substack.com/p/p-civilization-theory?r=6xljxt https://paxiscivlab.substack.com/p/p-civilization-theory?r=6...
- paxiscivlab 11mo agoAuthor here. I'm a software engineer in Japan, and this framework was written in collaboration with GPT — I provide the structure, GPT drafts, and I refine. I'm not an economist, so I'm especially interested in how this maps to existing theories. Happy to answer questions if useful — though my responses might be a bit slow since I'm in a different timezone.