OSE Apprenticeship Social Contract

Purpose

1. We commit to working on important issues, such as Pressing World Issues.
2. We commit to transforming systems from proprietary and oppressive to freedom-making and collaborative
3. We commit to helping each other gain independence (autonomy)
4. We commit to helping each other gain mastery
5. We commit to helping each other clarify purpose.

Economic

1. We commit to the creation of Distributive Enterprise (DE)
2. We commit to the collaborative development of DE, by learning Collaborative Literacy that enables us to work as large, highly-coordinated, global teams with an open invitation to participation.
3. We commit to the transparent development of DE, publishing product design and enterprise design openly.
4. We commit to creating enterprise models that are not scarcity-based, rooting out artificial scarcity from the economic equation
5. We commit to developing an entrepreneurial mindset, not an employee mindset - and to helping bring up many more people to this level.
6. We commit to developing effective and efficient build techniques.

Social

1. We commit to creating a nontoxic environment for learning, working, and growth - in our group and with the world.
2. We commit to avoiding cult-like behavior, instead of focusing on a vision much greater than ourselves.
3. We commit to supporting each other - in learning, and in livelihood creation.
4. We are inclusive, as we recognize that we are all in it together, globally speaking. This implies that there is no us vs them.
5. We commit to bringing everyone up, seeing that distribution of existing knowledge is even more important than creating new knowledge.
6. By developing effective and efficient build techniques, we open up time for personal evolution as we address our basic needs in a nonviolent way.

Transformation

1. We focus on immediate results with 500 year stewardship considered.
2. We commit to questioning everything in order to settle on the best path forward
3. We commit to not knowing anything, so we can learn everything
4. We commit to identifying and solving pressing world issues through the work that we do.
5. We commit to open design as a way to tranform the economy from proprietary to collaborative.
6. We commit to cultivating a post-scarcity mindset, starting with first principles to get us there.

Design

1. We commit to design as simple as possible, but no simpler.
2. We focus on integrated, big systems thinking that allows us to understand how things are connected.
3. We commit to collaborative design - for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance.