Fear of Survival

We discuss fear hear - an emotion evoked frequently by open source collaboration.

Context: we live in a world that is fundamentally self-centered, dog-eats-dog - as evidenced by corporate rules of procedure, legal forms, and other institutions. The vast majority of the economic system is predicated on creating artificial scarcity, where no real scarcity exists. Fear of surviving - making ends meet - is quite real for most people, including those who hoard wealth. Those who are most well-off fear losing their weath, I hear.

In doing open source work, one has to