Optimalism is built on the pillars of love, fairness and science.
Science, because it’s the best system humans have invented for advancing knowledge and for optimizing outcomes. But without a suitable human-centric goal, scientific research, like the economic systems that fund it, often defaults to optimizing for money. Instead, in Optimalism, we use the methodologies of science to optimize for fairness.
While most people are in favor of fairness, its definition varies, depending on our ideologies and socioeconomic situations. In the interest of objectivity, we need an ideologically-independent basis for defining and measuring fairness.
And that basis is love.
When we talk about “love”, we’re really using it as a shorthand for “mutual respect, empathy and compassion”. Not just for those in your inner circle or your wider community, but for all humans. That means recognizing the equality of all humans, past, present and into the future. Accepting that all humans have the same right to exist, the same right to benefit from the planet and ecosystem that we share and the same right to participate fully in our global civilization.
