COMMENTARY
The following notes are very messy. They were prepared in the early part of 2010, and worked on only a little bit in the last two years. They will be refined bit by bit in the next few months (December 2011)
Peter Burgess

Introduction This text is from early 2010 when a start was made on the development of a 'game' to help understand the dynamic of socio-economic development at the society and community level. The original version of this was prepared in the CA environment, [that is Community Analytics (CA)] before we were advised to discontinue use of that name.

The file name for this text is CCgame_100_01_OutlineRules_100610.odt.

THE GAME OF LIFE

Where we … the starting gate … a state influenced by many things

• There is my (individual) state
• There is my family state
• There is my friends state
• There are my networks state
• There is my (physical) community state
• There is my state's state
• There is my country's state
• There is my world's state

• My education
• My health
• My family
• My wealth
• My attitude

Universal Continuum

Sector

These are the stakeholders:

• Scorekeeper
• Rule maker
• Owner
• Manager
• Coach
• Players
• Spectators
• Fans
• Sponsors
• Playing field … Soccer field
• Sports … track and field
• Stands
• Stadium
• Community

What needs to happen to win the game?

What needs to happen to win the league?

Success is going to be getting the factory right.

One of the problems with modern society is that almost all the resources are being committed to expanding the overhead departments.

A service economy is essentially one that has a whole lot of overhead and maybe not very much factory.

Six Pain Points

The following pain points are important in many lives:

• Mortgage
• Healthcare
• Insurance
• Energy cost
• Credit
• Education

Person Family Community

Home Building Block Neighborhood Community

Affinity Community

Physical Community

Subsubsector subsector sector

Subsubfunction subfunction function

Orgnunit Orgnhdqr Orgncons

Community Community Country (?)

Projunit Projcons Projspon

Community Community Country

Affinity Community

Person Family

Physical Community

Safety CP

Culture CU

Entertainment CU

Religion CU

Sports CU

Economic opportunity EC

Healthcare EC

Prosperity EC

Retirement security EC

Salaries and wages EC

Wealth EC

Education ED

Experience ED

Knowhow ED

Languages ED

Literacy ED

Skills ED

Energy EN

Family FF

Friends FF

Health HE

Land NR

Architecture PH

Commercial real estate PH

Industrial real estate PH

Residential housing PH

Financial services SE

Sanitation SE

Sewers IN SE

Transport SE

Water SE

Roads IN

Bridges IN

Internet IN SE

People … quality of life QL

Culture CU

Economic activities EC

Physical place … buildings and construction PH

Economic services ES

Education ED

Energy EN

Health HE

Infrastructure IN

Natural Resources NR

Organization OR

• Jobs
• Business
• Wealth

• Healthcare

• Education
• Literacy
• Languages
• Skills
• Experience
• Knowhow

• Housing
• Architecture
• Land

• Sports
• Dance
• Music
• Art
• History

• Government
• Local Governance
• Police
• Business

• Land
• Water
• Energy
• Minerals
• Trees
• Wildlife
• Scenery

Each person is individual

A person aggregates to a family

Class is associated with the person

About the family

Metrics about the family

Family

Grandparents … ancestors

Parents

Children

Class is associated with the family

• Family house and home
• Family values
• Family environment
• Family culture
• Family wealth

• Occupation
• Education
• Income
• Wealth
• Tensions
• Visual
• Emotional/passion
• Material
• Spiritual
• Metrics about the community
• Part of a community

People and families aggregate to be the community

Community has

• Environment
• Schools
• Health services
• Safety (police)
• Infrastructure
• Organizations
• Working cpaital
• Trade and markets / Economy
• Jobs / Employment

• Health
• Finance
• Education
• Time

Cube

Area

Length ... Inches, yards, miles, centimeters, meters, kilometers,

Money ... Dollars, Pounds, Euros, Leones, cfas, yen, etc

Time ... Seconds. Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months Years

Value ... Money equivalent, Value units (to be determined)

Economics ... GDP

Wealth ... Money

The Trajectory of Life is determined by decisions.

Decisions are influenced by a very large number of variables

The difference between a child and an adult is that the child has many decisions made for them … in the case of an adult many more decisions are made by the individual. In both case the environment is an enabler of decisions and a constraint.

Spreadsheet model

These are the rows in the spreadsheet … will do some definition of the rows / calculations in due course.

Row title Row explanation Age of a first child in the family From the perspective of child Value of family Class The following numbers about value of family are NOT related to anything yet! Wealth Money wealth (excluding home) Home Occupation Parent 1 Parent 2 Education Parent 1 Parent 2 Income Parent 1 Parent 2 Wealth total

Value dimension

Parent 1 age Parent 1 value

Parent 2 age Parent 2 value

Other relatives Other relatives value

Child 1 age Child 1 value

Child 2 age Child 2 value

Total family

Starting beginning of year

Money additions Parent 1 income Parent 2 income Total additions

Money expenditures Federal taxes State and local taxes

• Housing
• Food and basic essentials
• Technology / lifestyle
• Entertainment
• Travel / vacations
• Child 1 healthcare
• Child 1 education

Value changes Parent 1 Parent 2 Child 1 Child 2

About the Child

Age

Money flows

This year cost of eduction Cum cost of eduction

This year cost of healthcare Cum cost of healthcare

This year maintenance … food, clothing, entertainment Cum maintenance

This year money investment in child Cum money invested in the child

Value quantification Emotional Economic Value total

Value increment

Cost of living

Food and basic essentials

This year cost of living

Cum cost of living

Housing

About Education

Good education and skills determines economic potential Age of child Cost of education for single child Cost of education per year Cum investment in education Funded by … who is paying for the education? Family money Student … individual loan Society subsidy To balance Total

The value proposition Initiatives to deliver value Base school … just the costs Excellence in education … a multiplier Excellence in education Parents efforts Community efforts Total value increment Cum value increment from education

Impact of value delivery … keep you eye on the prize!

NPV of 25 year old with good outcome

Healthcare

Age of child

Cost Cum investment in healthcare

Value increment … base Value increment … due health service excellence Value increment … due parents effort Value increment … due community effort Total value increment Cum value increment from education

Funded by … who is paying for the healthcare? Family money Individual Society subsidy To balance Total

Economic value matrix for individual

Age of individual

Annual money cost Net Present Value of costs (30 year window) NPV change

Annual money earnings Net Present Value of earnings (20 year window) NPV change Net NPV money cost net of NPV money earnings

• Pain
• Paint
• Pals
• Partnership
• Passion
• Patience
• Peer
• People
• Perfect
• Performance
• Perseverance
• Person
• Perspective
• Plan
• Planet
• Plus
• Population
• Positive
• Possible
• Pot, Prohibition and Prostitution
• Practical
• Practice
• Pragmatic
• Prejudice
• Process
• Procreation
• Productivity
• Progress
• Prosperity
• Prostitution
• Prudence
• Public Private Partnership
• Purpose

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Vision Passion Action Deadline Frustrated Demotivated Disillusioned Accountability Challenge Encourage Engage Motivate S.M.A.R.T. Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely Help to become account Goal minded Personal growth Trustworthy Relationship Vague goals get vague results Are you headed in the right direction People are MULTIDIMENTIONAL (this is our algorithm) Imagine if you had no constraints If you could have anything you want What would it be…..

Financial Career Health Relationships Recreation Contribution Personal Education Anything else? What’s stopping you Project yourself into the future In six months, you’ll be closer to your goal How will you celebrate… congratulations.

From ancient times: earth, air, fire, water, ether

Phlogiston Theory

© Copyright 1996, Jim Loy

http://www.jimloy.com/physics/phlogstn.htm

In ancient times, there were sometimes considered to be four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. In the heavens was the fifth element (the quintessence), the ether. This theory lacked the predictive power to make alchemy a science. Eventually, early chemists decided that combustion was the most important chemical reaction, that understanding combustion would actually revolutionize chemistry. Early on, they had the impressive insight that the corrosion of metals was a form of combustion. Another impressive insight was that respiration, in animals, is also a form of combustion. A common test of the goodness of any given air (gas) was to measure the time that a mouse would survive, breathing the air.