Private property and trade. The “inputs” are users’ ability to reassign ownership through donation or trade, and the “output” is a (sometimes formalized, sometimes only implied) database of who has the right to determine how each physical object is used. The goal is to encourage production of useful physical objects and put them into the hands of people who make best use of them.
I wonder if there are alternatives to this that are just as decentralised and credibly neutral.
@condret, you’re an ancom, what do you think?