Let me try explain this idea.
Society has a hugely ineffective slow means of valuing and predicting and estimating decisions in the present day. Somebody has to pore through data and create reports which get read by a small minority of government decision makers and then actioned. Academia.
Most
people don't really understand why things happened for the reason it did.
On television they were arguing that net zero energy efficiency saved us money and others were arguing against it. So I propose a solution to all arguments about causality: we credit decision making causes directly and they are tracked and valued in a stock exchange
In most government spending decisions, we do something because of a reason. How often do we see it play out how we expect ? Nobody truly knows how things would have turned out otherwise.
When the future happens we learn what was not true about what we believed.
When something happens, we think it happened for a reason. There is the ostensible reason: why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.
Whenever we appeal to a cause, we send a transaction of a number to that cause account and there is a logical connection from the action to the cause.
If I am in a shop and I choose Branston beans over Heinz beans, I can credit a cause, "it was cheaper" or "i prefer the flavour"
Let's improve everyone's knowledge by tracing causality directly that everyone can follow in real time, like a stock ticker.
We can also create parallel histories because we can value opportunity costs in fantasy trading markets.
If people thought that "X" would have performed better if we did that thing X, then we can credit X with what was spent on that thing and then people can fantasy trade on that thing and track the results of that thing in parallel.
We can also make gambling a socially useful function with this scheme.
Examples: In 2010 we spent £3.5 million on road improvements in area Xyz, people valued the improvements at 4 million in 2010, but in 2023, people value the improvements as £5 million.