Tools for Conviviality Reflections

flowchart TD 
    A(Tools serve people) --> B(Dependency increases) --> C(People serve tools) -->|consumer-slave mentality towards tools. Beyond 'second threshold', consumer-slave mentality loops in on itself| B
    
    C -->|'austerity', creator-producer-stakeholder mentality towards tools, achieve critical awareness, cut out dependency through re-communalization and cost-minization| D(Conviviality increases) --> A 
  

• Principal agent problem for tool usage
  • The Principal Agent Problem as the Rootiest Root of the Polycrisis
  • Irrespective of institutions, tool begin to serve their own interests, at the expense of users
  • Has to do with the mindset of the user, active creator vs passive consumer
  • Producer vs consumer mentality?
  • Institutions have an analogous principal-agent problem as tools — both are incentivized through self-preservation to increase dependency
• What determines consumer-slave vs creator-producer-stakeholder mentality?
  • Context — alienated context prevents ownership, communalistic context promotes ownership
  • “Austerity” as negative space conviviality, an awareness and minimization of unnecessary and addictive tool usage
  • Missing — where to learn “austerity”?
    • Community has incentive for cost-minimization, which includes dependency / tool-minimization
      • Maximizing Revenue vs Minimizing Cost
    • Communal cost-minimization teaches austerity
    • What is the opposite of austerity?
      • Gluttony? dependency? unnecessary or addictive dependency. Some kind of laziness, complacency, passivity. Increasingly enslaved through lack of self-autonomy
      • If you have an unnecessary dependency, remove it
• Convivial tools:
  • Bicycle
  • Swiss army knife
  • Laptop
  • Bible? / moral-health instructions
  • Linux
  • Home server as a convivial tool
  • Grown home
  • Permacultural agriculture
• Non-convivial tools:
  • Car
  • Phone
  • Plane / Train
  • Dogma
  • Complete home
  • Monocultural agriculture
• Convivial world
  • Justice, survival, self-determined work
  • Translates to cosmolocalism — local production, global knowledge
  • Divergent Competition and Increasing the Pie
  • Divergent competition as a correlate to examples of convivial worlds
• Technological paradigms are one-way because they achieve scale and throughput that other paradigms cannot achieve, can only extend the paradigm which may already be exhausted, which may become increasingly non-convivial.

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