{"id":274,"date":"2026-04-30T16:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/?p=274"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:03:07","slug":"274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"The mechanism: Pay the Pilot\u2019s Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pilot\u2019s Wage is a consumer-driven reimbursement system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every product has an ecological value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ecological value of a product is the percentage of its production costs that is spent on renewable supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consumers are paid one third of that ecological value when they choose goods and services that keep the environment in good condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The payment reduces the price they pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, products with higher ecological value become less expensive.<br>Consumers buy them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Producers compete as before.<br>To remain competitive, they increase the ecological value of their products by increasing the percentage of production costs spent on renewable supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this way, production shifts toward what keeps the environment in good condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pilot\u2019s Wage is a consumer-driven reimbursement system. Every product has an ecological value. The ecological value of a product is the percentage of its production costs that is spent on renewable supplies. Consumers are paid one third of that ecological value when they choose goods and services that keep the environment in good condition. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}