Function

Solutions

To ease communication

Inventions of media, simplicity

To reduce false or irrelevant data

Punishment for lying, free speech, right to contradictory, transparency, divine punishment beliefs, redundant supervision, relevance filtering

To mitigate loss of data

Responsibilities, protocols, inventions of media, channel redundancy, segregation and independence

To ease credit attribution

Inventions of media, credit symbols, procedures

To reduce unreal credit attribution

Taxes, monetary authorities, credit subjected to earlier realization, penalties for broken promises, redundant and independent evaluation

To reduce credit loss

Private property principle, written contracts, state violence monopoly, divine punishment beliefs, decision maker limitation, redundant supervision by courts, universality, enforcement of rituals