Eight Prerequisites for Post-Scarcity

• 0. Open Data
• 1. Public Resource System. Like Freecycle meets Facebook meets TinkerCAD
  • Production Engine
    • Provides a design platform to create a novel design or uses ready-made designs
    • Determines where product and product parts are made
  • Distribution Engine
    • Alerts automated vehicles to retrieve and deliver materials or products
• 2. Common Land. (i.e. La Via Campesina and Rajastan)
• 3. Materials Commons. Free material for product construction. Start with dumps before exploring extraction.
• 4. Industrial Commons. Places to go to make, learn, or have them made. (i.e. Open Source Ecology and Wikispeed)
• 5. Robotics Network. For transport, manufacturing, and service. Robots are divided into three types:
  • Fabots - make things
  • Servibots - feed materials to fabots and distribots or people
  • Distribots - deliver materials to or from factory and user location
• 6. Transport Commons. Distribots are registered for non-commercial use for free to use road or rail built to last
• 7. Labor Commons. People willingly, and with a sense of purpose, work for free, and find such work fulfilling.