Open Source Economy

Introduction

An open source economy is defined as an economy in which the development of goods and services happens via open collaboration between enterprises and organizations on the global level. It is an economy where the rate of innovation across all sectors is significantly higher than the rate of innovation provided by proprietary research and development characteristic of the 20th century. In short, the open source economy is efficient: it avoids Competitive Waste - thereby optimizing not only production, but also - distribution. It is a paradigm that solves the last frontier of the human economy - distribution - being Distributive Rather Than Re-distributive.

Some notable characteristics of an open source economy are:

1. Product development occurs as a non-proprietary, collaborative effort, such as that shown already for software with the Linux Foundation. Transparency replaces secrecy, and open innovation replaces protecionism.
2. Human integration towards personal maturation (marked by self-esteem, ethics, and sefl-determination) is achieved commonly by most of the human population
3. The Gini Coefficient drops at least to pre-industrial levels
4. Forest cover percentage has reversed its continuing downward trend, as the derivative landslides, desertification, and floods begin to be less significant causes of societal instability.
5. Wholesale ecocide is reversed. It may be desirable to reintroduce extinct species via genetic engineering, but only if proper risk assessment has been done.
6. The number of political war casualties declines from the current 10,000 baseline to 0
7. Societal institutions displaying poor incentive structures, thereby causing general conflict of interest between the economy and ethics, are corrected.

Quantitative Analysis

Quantitatively speaking, these are translated to the current statistics, and set points are proposed for the next economy:

1. Overall - for a quantification of the $940B economy required for a transition - see The Tipping Point
2. Military - 10x reduction from $2T to $200B, with another 10x reduction in the following decade. This is just a gross guess of a practical level that can be attained within 20 years (one generation) - based on transition from weaponry to livingry (as Buckminster Fuller claimed). That means transitioning from kicking ass (stealing products) to producing them instead. The latter is more compelling to those who have feelings.

More

The open source economy is an economy that optimizes both production and distribution, while providing environmental regeneration and social justice. The open source economy is in essence a paradigm where communities utilize open source knowledge and tools to provide material prosperity without relying on global supply chains for essential resources.

See our work from the early days of Open Source Ecology - the Enterprise Plan Video of 2011:

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Links

• OSE Specifications
• Distributive_Economy#Distributive_vs_Re-Distributive
• OSE Enterprise Specifications