agalmics means the study and practice of the production and allocation of non-scarce goods. It carries an Arena rating of 1288, earned across 6 head-to-head judged battles.
Why “agalmics” is a great word
Agalmics is the systematic study and practice of producing and allocating non-scarce, inherently abundant goods. Its name, coined in the late 20th century, is built from the Ancient Greek ἄγαλμα (ágalma, 'votive offering, statue, image')—an object of value meant for communal veneration, not hoarding—and the English suffix -ics, denoting a field of study or practice. Unlike economics, which orbits the grim sun of scarcity, or philanthropy, which is the charity of surplus, agalmics is the architecture of abundance itself. It is the logic of a song that multiplies with every singer, the protocol of a garden that blooms more richly the more its seeds are shared, and the quiet revolution of a library whose every book is always on the shelf—a discipline that asks not what we must ration, but what we may, in giving, endlessly create.
Etymology
Ancient Greek ἄγαλμα (ágalma, “votive offering”) + -ics.
noun
- The study and practice of the production and allocation of non-scarce goods.“So we can be certain that, over time, more and more basic goods will become less and less scarce. With these changes, it becomes increasingly important to understand how human beings allocate non-scarce goods. Indeed, a sort of "economics" of non-scarcity becomes an important study. But economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods. We need a new paradigm, and a new field of study. What”