Competing with China

Frequently, people ask me how the OSE Paradigm can compete with China.

1. When IP access barriers are eliminated in the open source economy, cost of production is reduced to production capitalization and labor.
2. Cost of production capitalization, under the assumption of flexible fabrication assisted by automation - goes to zero in the scenario of community-supported manufacturing (think Open Source Fab Lab in every community). That is, a community in the next economy will have its own flexible, digital fabrication capacity.
3. In the open source economy of DIY ethic and local production capacity and transparency - the cost of labor goes to zero. That is, with access to advanced and augmented reality instructionals for rapid learning, a person can get up from no skill to basic proficiency in making something on a rapid time scale. Indeed, such rapid learning could be the norm as the DIY ethic takes over.
4. Further, in the limit of lifetime-design products, products need to be made only once, greatly reducing the cost to the individual. In the limit of DIY ethic, this cost, defined as external cost - goes to zero - if the person actually does the work themselves.
5. Further, regulatory costs are minimized via technological transparency, a technologically-literate populace of the open source age.
6. Technological literacy is facilitated by introduction of true technical education, not industry standard marketing forces.