OSE Model of Change

Overview

• The core of OSE's change model is Distributed Market Substitution towards creation of the Open Source Economy.
• Distributed Market Substitution (DMS) revolves around Technological Recursion - the ability to localize deeper levels of technology. DMS is a specific type of localization.
• Mass production cannot compete with open source (production), which OSE has demonstrated partially in its Extreme Manufacturing Milestones.
• The OSE economic model is Distributive Enterprise - beyond Social Business, and beyond open source enterprise
• Note the distinction drawn to Distributive Rather Than Re-distributive

Other Aspects

• Motivation is based on Self-Determination Theory rather than self-interest

Introduction

Approximately 80% of the world's geopolitics, politics, and economics are driven by the material economy, and 20% is software. The provision of material security to people remains one of the key challenges of humanity, and it is far from optimal. Most of resource conflictsis and disparity of wealth are grounded in the material economy. Thems that gots, gets.

Current understanding of human motivation is captured in Self Determination Theory. Yet most people are stuck in making a living instead of thriving via their capacity for self-determination.

OSE believes that the deepest kind of freedom relies on one's individual capacity to convert abundant natural resources to free themselves from material constraints. That is the basis for sound human relations - personally and geopolitically.

There is effectively no choice in today's economy when it comes to right livelihood. People are relegated to military and industrial slots which are based on continuing environmental degeneration and taking from the poorest.

To allow for a real option of right livelihood, a parallel, ethical, open source economy must be created. It is an economy beyond the fear of survival, made possible by unleashing access to learning and productivity.

OSE believes that the mass creation of right livelihood by distributive enterprise is a possible route to achieve the promise of self-determination, in harmony with natural life support systems, and to slay the Myth of Technology.

OSE also believes that mass production can not compete with open source (production). OSE has been demonstrating this with its Extreme Manufacturing Workshops.

To this end, OSE is developing open source machines of productivity that allow for the conversion of the current economy into an advanced civilization at an appropriate scale. Operationally, we develop machines, and produce distributive enterprises that allow for the distributed creation of wealth based on abundant resources. Otherwise, even Krypton depleted its resources and caused a Universal-scale war.

Operational

The concept of distributed economies is not new, but its execution is. Outside of OSE, we know of no other explicitly open source, distributive organizations operating at the level of distributing production. Some candidates such as OpenDesk, MIT FabLab, and WikiHouse have emerged.

Earlier Work

• See Theory_of_Change