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--- free_trade_wealth_vs_energy_model [2021/03/21 20:09] – freeworlder
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 ====== Free Trade - A Wealth vs. Energy Model ======
-As an experiment for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaASCnKNTmA|a video]], I devised a computer simulation of the free trade of wealth and energy using NetLogo's free Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) software. You can view an [[https://openaccesseconomy.org/files/Free_Trade_Model_Wealth_vs_Energy.html|interactive model online]] or download the NetLogo [[https://openaccesseconomy.org/files/Free_Trade_Model_Wealth_vs_Energy.nlogo|source code]]. (A copy of this model also exists in the [[http://modelingcommons.org/browse/one_model/6676|NetLogo media commons]])
+As an experiment for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaASCnKNTmA|a video]], I devised a computer simulation of the free trade of wealth and energy using NetLogo's free Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) software.
+You can view an [[https://openaccesseconomy.org/files/Free_Trade_Model_Wealth_vs_Energy.html|interactive model online]] or download the NetLogo [[https://openaccesseconomy.org/files/Free_Trade_Model_Wealth_vs_Energy.zip|source code]]. (A copy of this model also exists in the [[http://modelingcommons.org/browse/one_model/6676|NetLogo media commons]])
 ===== Summary =====
-The goal was to create as fair a simulation as possible of a free market trading economy using a few simple parameters. These are:
+The goal was to create as fair a simulation as possible of the evolution of a free market trading economy using a few simple parameters, and compare how the transfer of wealth related to the transfer of 'energy' - where energy generally denotes effort spent or quality of life received.
+A model 'world' is created and populated with agents who follow a simple set of rules. These are:
-  * Each agent would start with the same amount of wealth and energy. (Capital)
+  * Each agent starts with the same amount of wealth and energy. (Capital)
-  * Each agent would be given a randomly applied 'skill' attribute (a number of varying value, constrained to a maximum of double the lowest)
+  * Each agent is given a randomly applied 'skill' attribute (a number of varying value, constrained to a maximum of double the lowest)
-  * Each agent would trade with a fixed number of randomly allocated 'customer' agents
+  * Each agent trades with the same fixed number of customer agents, randomly allocated at each cycle
-  * A 'trade' would consist of selling 1 copy of their skill as energy, divided out and paid for equally among their customers
+  * A 'trade' consists of selling 1 copy of their skill as energy, divided out and paid for equally among their customers
-  * Every trade would expend 1 unit of an agent's energy (regardless of value)
+  * Every trade costs 1 unit of an agent's energy (regardless of value)
   * There is always the same amount of money in the system
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 ===== Conclusions =====
-Even though quality of life generally increases for all agents, there is a signnificant cost in terms of inequality and suction of wealth from society by the wealthy. When both taken equally into consideration the net benefit to society is only marginal, whereas a society that was based on the transfer of energy //only//  (open access of skills and resources) would be significantly before off
+Even though quality of life generally increases for all agents, there is a significant cost in terms of inequality and the suction of wealth from society by the wealthy. And it's worth emphasising that there are no greed or privilege elements in this model; the gravitation of wealth to the wealthy is simply a mathematical function of their costs becoming proportionally less and less.
+When both the transfers of wealth and energy are taken equally into consideration the net benefit to society is only marginal, whereas a society hypothetically based on the transfer of energy //only// (open access) would be significantly better off.
+— //[[colinrturner@gmail.com|Colin R. Turner]] 2021/03/21 20:14//—