Distributed Market Substitution 2018
The OSE Change Model calls for distributed market substitution - the substitution of common goods and services with efficient ones. The assumption here is that any enterprise that is not open source is not efficient. And the definition of 'efficient' matters - efficient must be in an integrated sense of taking care of the environment (planting trees, regenerating land, no pollution, no resource degradation), taking care of people (no slavery, alienation, violence; educates people), and taking care of the economic prosperity (right livelihood).
For an enterprise to be efficient all social, environmental, and economic terms - there are some needs:
- It educates. Education systems will continue to create disparity as long as proprietary information exists, because access is limited whenever information does not flow freely.
- It takes care of the environment
- It takes care of economic prosperity
Take a case of centralized production and why we believe that proprietary production cannot compete with open source. Production is increasingly information rich. And information can be shared freely at zero economic cost (Rifkin). Thus, more access is available on a local scale - which suggests that the limit of the economy as information becomes free is economic localization.
What is economic localization? It is the local production of goods which can be produced efficiently in the local area.