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Making society both more productive and humane, a la [[Drucker]], involves leveling the playing field. Here are our principles.
=About=
Leveling the playing field means creating a world in which everyone has a fair chance to prosper in freedom.
 
=Philosophy=
The desire for fairness is a potent motivator. Making society both more productive and humane, a la [[Drucker]], involves leveling the playing field. This has profound implications for ending [[Class Warfare]]. Here are our principles.


#Product effectiveness - if something can be done more effectively at lower cost, let it. For example, we commit not to have the only option of a more expensive product, if a lower cost product - which cannibalizes a part of the more expensive market - can be sold to provide for lower needs. The answer is both - but never solely the expensive shiny option because we would make less money selling the generic one. Example: does Arduino sell a bare bones Arduino at a fraction of the cost but without the bells and whistles, or does it cannibalize too much of its upper scale market? Inclusion: this is important to include options at all price scales - to maximize the humane nature of economics.
#Product effectiveness - if something can be done more effectively at lower cost, let it. For example, we commit not to have the only option of a more expensive product, if a lower cost product - which cannibalizes a part of the more expensive market - can be sold to provide for lower needs. The answer is both - but never solely the expensive shiny option because we would make less money selling the generic one. Example: does Arduino sell a bare bones Arduino at a fraction of the cost but without the bells and whistles, or does it cannibalize too much of its upper scale market? Inclusion: this is important to include options at all price scales - to maximize the humane nature of economics.
#Abundant resources - hydrogen qualifies here. Right now, with 1.2 cent/kwhr cost of solar (see [[Seed Eco-Home PV System]]), and 55 kWhr/kg hydrogen energy cost - means 66 cents per gallon equivalent. The capital expenditures are half the cost of hyrogen production, bringing GGE cost of hydrogen to $1.32. Trillion dollar idea.
#Abundant resources - hydrogen qualifies here. Right now, with 1.2 cent/kwhr cost of solar (see [[Seed Eco-Home PV System]]), and 55 kWhr/kg hydrogen energy cost - means production energy costs of 66 cents per gallon equivalent. The capital expenditures are half the cost of hyrogen production, bringing GGE cost of hydrogen to $1.32. Trillion dollar idea. Electricity cost is half the total cost [https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/hydrogen-production-cost] but that is for more expensive electricity, meaning that most of the cost could possibly be capital expenditure.
 
=Tactics=
*Eradication of patents and trade secrets is the obvious
*Proactively publishing product, enterprise, and operations blueprints
*[[Abundant Money]]
*[[Open Sector]] creation of [[Universal Basic Assets]]
*Open collaboration
*[[OSPD]]
*[[DE]] towards [[DMS]]
*Open Source microfactory
*[[OSES]]
*Robustification
*Standards optimization for product ecologies and interoperability, as well as for a [[Construction Set Approach]]
*[[Real Education]]
*Abolishing the profit motive in both the healthcare and prison industries.

Latest revision as of 23:28, 27 October 2024

About

Leveling the playing field means creating a world in which everyone has a fair chance to prosper in freedom.

Philosophy

The desire for fairness is a potent motivator. Making society both more productive and humane, a la Drucker, involves leveling the playing field. This has profound implications for ending Class Warfare. Here are our principles.

  1. Product effectiveness - if something can be done more effectively at lower cost, let it. For example, we commit not to have the only option of a more expensive product, if a lower cost product - which cannibalizes a part of the more expensive market - can be sold to provide for lower needs. The answer is both - but never solely the expensive shiny option because we would make less money selling the generic one. Example: does Arduino sell a bare bones Arduino at a fraction of the cost but without the bells and whistles, or does it cannibalize too much of its upper scale market? Inclusion: this is important to include options at all price scales - to maximize the humane nature of economics.
  2. Abundant resources - hydrogen qualifies here. Right now, with 1.2 cent/kwhr cost of solar (see Seed Eco-Home PV System), and 55 kWhr/kg hydrogen energy cost - means production energy costs of 66 cents per gallon equivalent. The capital expenditures are half the cost of hyrogen production, bringing GGE cost of hydrogen to $1.32. Trillion dollar idea. Electricity cost is half the total cost [1] but that is for more expensive electricity, meaning that most of the cost could possibly be capital expenditure.

Tactics