Distributed Market Substitution

A condition whereby full opensourcing of a product and its enterprise infrastructure results in substitution of proprietary production with smaller scale, distributed, flexible fabrication - employing 100x more producers and fewer middlemen, distributors, or marketers.

The idea is that as barriers to entry are lowered, and product design is designed-for-flexible-fabrication in open source microfactories - then a 100x or more wider production of the specific good can occur. The logic behind this is that the most robust production is local production, as it creates jobs in a decentralized + distributed scenario. The incentive behind this is enterprise startup in communities. This can happen as open design becomes available - as open source microfactory technology becomes available - and barriers to entry are lowered - such that the value chain shifts to efficiency (no competitive waste, no transportation, local and recycled materials). It is theorized here that worldwide transportation logistics cannot compete with local production due to transportation/logistics costs.