Open Sector Development Funding Construction Set

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  • The Open Sector involves infrastructures. If infrastructures involve the physical world, they are expensive.
  • This is part of why open source software succeeded, and open hardware didn't: it is expensive to create open source hardware infrastructure, whereas it is free to create open source software infrastructures. OSS infrastructure means compilers, programmer time, CPUs, electrons. All are approaching zero marginal cost including programming time, becuase once programmed, a program enters the public domain thus its cost is zero (it must be developed only once). This metaphor must be understood in order to translate zero marginal cost to hardware.
  • OSH open sector is happening in tiny pieces. For example 3D printing, though it has far to go because materials or designs or machines or energy aren't free or self-replicating yet.
  • We have abundant energy available, thus zero marginal cost hardware is possible with self-replicating PV (PV production powers the production of more PV) - this is Energy Self-Replication
  • We know that technology is productive, far outstripping human consumption.
  • Thus why is poverty and misery so abundant? It is distribution. Distribution as in 'no viable economic models' exist, or it is logistics, isolation, civil war, or other social factors that prevent wide dissemination of tech.
  • Solution is to reset the economic model. An economic model is based on human values, our 'decision' as to what should be produced. Current economics value scarcity, thus scarcity is enforced in the economic playing field.
  • Can we fund the open sector in physical goods, aka 'hardware'? Yes, if human consciousness begins to understand the model. Thus, storytelling can get funders to understand the hardware open sector - and thus be willing to fund it. A clear case study of 'a reset of an economic sector' seems to be a prerequisite, as nobody has the moral intelligence coupled with abundance literacy to fathom the possibility.
  • Seed Eco-Home proof of concept - production cost must be proven. Teachability must be proven for scalability. DMS must be proven, which in turn implies the creation of a Universal Basic Asset in housing.