OSE Model of Change

Introduction

OSE's work includes several levels, all of which must exist for fundamental transformation of the human enterprise. OSE's goal is a transition to collaborative, open development of its economies - namely the products and services that we use.

We work on open hardare - the Global Village Construction Set - and its underlying 500 Modules - for creating the entire technosphere.

We develop products and education for developing open source products collaboratively.

But that is only the beginning. As the name Global Village Construction Set implies - we build infrastructures of civilization - to produce any enterprise imaginable. But that is only the beginning: our goal is an enterprise model that transcends the 2 outstanding limitations of modern capitalism: ongoing ecocide and poor distribution of wealth.

To get to the next level, we must solve the material prosperity issue for everyone. OSE's approach to this is not a theoretical design of human enterprise - but their implementation. To transition from the theory to practice - that means that we build real settlements. Our model for this is the OSE Campus.

The closest analogue to the OSE Campus is the university campus. Except operationally much different. It's also a real economy, and circular at that. Why not have the agriculture students provide food for the cafeteria? Why not have the engineers produce cars, tractors, and utilities that run on campus? Why not have the architecture students build the campus? Why not have the computer science department create the autonomous farm rovers and drones that make agriculture easier? Why not have the international relations and business students work on collaborative design processes that make an advanced economy possible? Why not have the 'law students' deveolop the governance and social contracts that we live by, to correct outdated features of existing systems? Why not have the scientists and medical students develop open source labs and clinics to keep up with modern scientific progress? And best of all - why not have the option for someone to learn all these fields so that they can produce the most integrated and effective solutions possible - free of the silos of modern education? And - this all would be impossible if we do not learn to get past our own personal issues - so we need to study applied psychology and peak performance - to become integrated humans. After their due time at the OSE Campus, students emerge as integrated movement entrepreneurs - ready to tackle pressing world issues. Because the explicit stated purpose of the OSE Campus is to prepare students for solving pressing world issues, one by one. Conceptually, that is simple: learning to share, be true, to plant trees, and collaborate with others. In practice, this is difficult - and hence we are creating the OSE program to facilitate this.

The point is - OSE is developing the GVCS - but at the same time - a generalized, collaborative, open source development methodology - to transition the economy from proprietary to collaborative. This means rapid prototyping and experimenting throughout - in terms of building real infrastructures.

The OSE Campus is an instance of such an infrastructure. The roll-out could be a an open source microfactory, which evolves to a full campus. In any case, it must have fundamental productivity. We have identified 9 key enterprises that we would run, to provide a stable economic base for expansion. See OSE Campus Social Contract#Technology.

OSE's goal is to start about 10,000 of these campuses worldwide, so that open source technology, afforestation, sound governance, end of poverty and war, and the beginning of general Self-Determination become the norm.

Some of the byproducts of the OSE Campus:

1. is serving as a point of light that disseminates free enterprise through its surrounding communities.
2. Afforestation and regeneration of the environment, ending biodiversity loss
3. Liberation of humanity from toil - ending the Myth of Technology and replacing this myth with true liberatory technology that frees people to pursue their most important goals, free from the threat of survival

Meta Principles

• Approach is material-based. Material needs are determined by one's self-esteem. At the first approximation, material needs are the same for people: x calories per day, a home, etc. Material needs diverge based on one's consciousness (Nathaniel Branden)
• Economy follows provision of material security in the first approximation
• Politics follow economy
• Attempt to make a better world by prioritizing the political sphere is like - 'water will also each rock to make the Grand canyon). Material security must be addressed free of rat race and other obstructions to flow. Working on the material front s the most direct route.
• Proving the efficacy of social change via material means would you nvolve creating a replicable village campus. If that becomes the new model of human settlements, istead of the cookie cutter suburbia, then we have proven the case. That indicates trillions of dolla s of economic value converts to regenerative settlements. This, what does this Village Campus look like from an operational point of view - with respect to feasibility of build, replicability, and 'market penetration' into the current world
• In the new economy, home and work are the same. Our 'house-keeping', or economics - as that's where I he word comes from in Greek, is no longer separated from our house. Because of this historical separation between our house and our house-keeping - we have spawned genocides and ecocides.
• It's time.frnregenerative house keeping, or regenerative economics.
• Regenerative is easiest when it's in your backyard, as who.wants to.spoil their own back yard. We have direct feedback looks in what we do, and how that affects the environment. As a Chinese wise man once today me, if you go to bed with an itchy ass, you're going to wake up with smelly fingers.

Overview

• The core of OSE's change model is Distributed Market Substitution towards creation of the Open Source Economy.
• Distributed Market Substitution (DMS) revolves around Technological Recursion - the ability to localize deeper levels of technology. DMS is a specific type of localization.
• Mass production cannot compete with open source (production), which OSE has demonstrated partially in its Extreme Manufacturing Milestones.
• The OSE economic model is Distributive Enterprise - beyond Social Business, and beyond open source enterprise
• Note the distinction drawn to Distributive Rather Than Re-distributive

Other Aspects

• Motivation is based on Self-Determination Theory rather than self-interest

Introduction

Approximately 80% of the world's geopolitics, politics, and economics are driven by the material economy, and 20% is software. The provision of material security to people remains one of the key challenges of humanity, and it is far from optimal. Most of resource conflictsis and disparity of wealth are grounded in the material economy. Thems that gots, gets.

Current understanding of human motivation is captured in Self Determination Theory. Yet most people are stuck in making a living instead of thriving via their capacity for self-determination.

OSE believes that the deepest kind of freedom relies on one's individual capacity to convert abundant natural resources to free themselves from material constraints. That is the basis for sound human relations - personally and geopolitically.

There is effectively no choice in today's economy when it comes to right livelihood. People are relegated to military and industrial slots which are based on continuing environmental degeneration and taking from the poorest.

To allow for a real option of right livelihood, a parallel, ethical, open source economy must be created. It is an economy beyond the fear of survival, made possible by unleashing access to learning and productivity.

OSE believes that the mass creation of right livelihood by distributive enterprise is a possible route to achieve the promise of self-determination, in harmony with natural life support systems, and to slay the Myth of Technology.

OSE also believes that mass production can not compete with open source (production). OSE has been demonstrating this with its Extreme Manufacturing Workshops. This concept has been theorized in the seminal book, The Second Industrial Divide, and initial evidence of feasibility was proven for the open source context by OSE. Specifically, see Ergonomics of Tractor Production.

To this end, OSE is developing open source machines of productivity that allow for the conversion of the current economy into an advanced civilization at an appropriate scale. Operationally, we develop machines, and produce distributive enterprises that allow for the distributed creation of wealth based on abundant resources. Otherwise, even Krypton depleted its resources and caused a Universal-scale war.

Operational

The concept of distributed economies is not new, but its execution is. Outside of OSE, we know of no other explicitly open source, distributive organizations operating at the level of distributing production. Some candidates such as OpenDesk, MIT FabLab, and WikiHouse have emerged.

Earlier Work

• See Theory_of_Change