The Role of Norms in Organizing a Just Society

Abstract

Currently, the classical concepts of capitalism and socialism are being improved, clarified, and modified. Today, countries with different approaches to the distribution of public goods are called socialist. In this work we will talk about an artificial society in which the mechanism of preferring socialism over capitalism is implemented. It is substantiated that such a society seems natural with the dominance of digital technologies, in particular, various types of robots. The main attention will be paid to social norms, since in the digital world their role is becoming almost dominant. Norms are seen as an effective measure to combat injustice and inequality. A typical question when building an artificial society is how to formulate the relationships between agents in terms of good and evil. A model of interaction between agents will be considered, where indicators of the relationship between agents, in particular, good and evil, are indicated in the form “exist - do not exist” without their quantitative measurement. By carrying out calculations on this type of model, it is possible to determine under what conditions society consolidates or, on the contrary, breaks up into groups that hate each other, etc.