Enforced Mediocrity

One may claim that education brings everyone up - and that is true. But today's education is limited. By design, proprietary development of products and optimal education are incompatible. When companies keep their best practices to themselves in the form of patents and trade secrets, others cannot learn from them, and end up reinventing the wheel themselves. This introduces a tremendous quantity of wasted effort into the operation of societies. This is not an isolated incident - this is how the world works.

The solution is to share best practice - by open source, collaborative development. This way, large gaps in skills and capacities - whether between individuals or countries - does not arise. A more level playing field is created, and a framework is created for prosperity in a more democratic society. This must be achieved before humanity engages on any honest effort to make a better world.

Transparent, open collaboration is core to OSE's work because of our recognition that in order to pull out of Artificial Scarcity - we must address our failure - to collaborate.