what are market based views on maximizing social utility?

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I think existing systems are often not object-based to a satisfactory degree.

When we think of "genius solutions" we really want clear ideas of what can be improved or demonstrated.

Looking at technology for instance (which is a dominant metaphor at least, in addition to being so industrial) ideas can be proposed which change or adapt existing methods, but this creates a new context of "operable blindness" e.g. a kind of contingency

Most solutions you may find will begin with some concept of category, and extract this into a scenario of operable blindness. That it doesn't say so much as this about what it does may be a sign of actual incompetence (or usary)

As technological examples, I proposed at http://www.project-syndicate.org (a great site about ideas) the following technological innovations:

---Digital Marketing Devices for selling digital products by LAN or wireless
---Application Interfacer for saving meta-tags for use in public spaces, e.g. interactive visuals, music, etc.
---InterPhase display screen for application interfacer type interfacing, programs for filtering dynamic content

Maybe you are looking for these kinds of ideas, or maybe you are looking for something closer to social science literature, e.g. broad solutions or broad strokes.

One view of markets is they are always looking for an object, which results in these operable blindness scenarios, that are in turn best solved by objects like technology.

Another view that I have been fond of is that abstract ideas can be compared to social categories, creating ideas such as:

---The Modular Citizen
---Information Architecture
---Viable Travel
---Permanent Object-value

which are then combinable, creating Travel-as-information, Information-as-money, Citizen-as-digital-device, and Travel-by-instant-value-access

These may seem like commercial projects, but when taken as metaphysical they have value that is corroborable with consumer information and corporate motives.

It is broad categories like these that I find most functional in the context of social science literature, which is the prevailing norm for finding something profound about information of this type.

Use of such general categories may trace itself back to the time of Confucius, who used categories for social management. See <<The Analects of Confucius>>