Existonomy: economy as shared reality

Actuality (Wirklichkeit)

Actuality is what exists independently of human interpretation: bodies, ecosystems, limits, needs, consequences, time, energy, death, birth, hunger, fatigue, relation.

Shared Reality (Realität)

Shared Reality is what humans create together: rules, institutions, markets, companies, money, ownership, contracts, stories, roles and systems of coordination.

Working definition

Being existonomist means not waiting for the economy to change. It means doing business differently.

Existonomy is a frame for economic decisions. It respects Actuality and examines Shared Reality: the rules, institutions, agreements and habits humans have built together. The aim is simple enough to be uncomfortable: make economic decisions that help existence unfold.

Simple definition

Existonomists do not change the economy from a balcony. They participate differently.

They watch how they work, who they work with, how money is shared, which rules shape cooperation, and what their actions leave behind. Economies change when enough people take part in them differently.

Professional definition

Existonomists do not treat economic rules as laws of nature. They examine which rules serve life.

Existonomy treats economic practice as design work. It asks whether rules make cooperation easier, whether contribution can matter more than ownership, whether learning remains possible, and whether value flows toward the work that maintains existence.

Philosophical definition

Existonomists do not ask how an economy should work. They ask which existence the economy serves.

The economy is part of existence, not a separate machine floating above it. Existonomy is the ongoing attempt to shape shared realities that support life, cooperation, learning, adaptability and the long-term unfolding of existence.