OUR SYSTEM Indicators [work in progress]
Wellbeing is a difficult thing to define, let alone to measure. And the definition is critical to the measurement. If you look to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, wellbeing isn't even the top criteria, it's just one of many. Whereas, if you look at OECD Regional Wellbeing, it is of course, right at the top. For the Legatum Prosperity Index, prosperity is of course the over-arching goal (but is properity just another measure for wellbeing?). For OUR SYSTEM, and The Common Purpose (TCP) , it is fulfilment (or living) without harm. That's because fulfilling our potential, which is growing, which is living, is what life is all about. Life is really all about living, right? And the only way we can all do that, is if we do it without harming other life or being harmed by other life, i.e. by being free. That's what our system should enable for us. And that's what these OUR SYSTEM Indicators, following, are all about. I'm putting these up here to garner thought and...