OSE Whitepaper on the Open Source Economy

• Lifetime design produces 10x value for example when something lasts 5 years versus 50 years such as a skid steer
• In production, technological recursion allows 50% cost reduction by substituting open knowhow for purchased goods.
• For production cost of design is open and social production is used, then the resulting price is is perhaps 1/3 to 1/5 of the cost if we use open design
• In a universal basic asset and fresh structure, the cost to produce materials from the waste stream is about five times lower than virgin stock.
• Digital fabrication yields production at zero marginal cost over the value of the materials themselves . This is under the assumption of efficient, optimized design
• With a construction set approach for product ecologies we can further expand the usability of products by factor of 5 or 10
• This is not to count financing and other financial parasitism
• The above add up to about a thousand x performance to cost improvement, indicating scalable prosperity

Applications

• The supplies the feasibility of experimental prototype communities of tomorrow, on the scale of 10,000 people, on the size of an acre
• Observed for billion dollar per community productivity, exceeding the economies of small countries
• The top 10,000 factor is the enabler here
• Zero marginal cost of photovoltaics is an enabler, which can further be reduced to about 10 cents per watt
• Population of 10,000 is assumed sufficient to provide all the technological and social advancement of civilization