Pressing World Issues

About

Systems inertia works by preserving the System as it is. Many well-intentioned individuals fail to approach the edge of the System sufficiently close to make actual change.

Any effort, from the open source ecology perspective, must include collaborative open source, and thus modular and Distributive solutions as the stated core. Time scales of change must be on the generation scale (about 2 decades) if required.

The natural outcome of such an approach is transformation via Distributed Market Substitution on the house-keeping (economic) front, leading to Microstate Entrepreneurship.

For the OSE Manifesto

For the Book, we can easily communicate the obvious things in society that everyone relates to, such as 8 people own as much wealth as the bottom half of civilization, that housing is expensive, etc. A survey of all of these would go on the Solving Pressing World Issues Forum of OSE.

OSE Approach

• OSE uses the OSE 3 Step Process to solve pressing world issues.
• The OSE Forum provides a space for Action Research and Execution of Ideas Proposed.

Global Grand Challenges

Hint: Disclaimer: This page is a work in progress, and items are not listed in order of importance. The meaning of some of the following items may be different than what you may think, so please limit your assumptions. Further explanations will be provided and published in a forthcoming book, after being vetted and peer reviewed for general consensus and best practices

1. Institutions
2. General ecocide (Whole World issue) - deforestation, desertification, loss of habitat, species die-off
3. Disparity of wealth. High Gini Coefficient
4. Labor Rights. Marxist theory must be updated to continuous learning. Ie, in the workforce, one has a full option to rise in responsibility, and thus set their own pay commensurate with their value. This is possible only in a collaborative system with aligned incentives of win-win situations. Today, there is a large class of non-learners, who are fodder for fascist manipulation.
5. Democracy under siege - see Freedom House
6. Fractional Reserve Banking with high leverage ratios providing for instability. Note that the Federal Reserve Reduced Reserve Requirements to Zero in 2021, making funny money completely baseless.
7. Desertification
8. Deforestation
9. Anthropogenic Climate Change
10. High Cost of Living, preventing honest pursuit of Self-Determination by most people (a First World issue)
11. Standing armies
12. Genocide
13. Enforced Mediocrity
14. Political Ponerology, or promotion of evil within institutions
15. Medicine for Profit
16. Resource scarcity - water rights, clean air, clean food (Whole World issue)
17. Patent system and other legal fictions for enclosing public knowledge
18. Lack of public access to published journals. Solution possibility: cross subsidization or institution only pay for the service
19. Limitation of liability (ie, fundamental unaccountability baked into the operation of enterprise) and the Agency Problem.
20. Biodiversity loss
21. Alienation from work (related to high Cost of Living)
22. Access to healthcare
23. Illiteracy, and especially collaborative illiteracy
24. Innumeracy and Scientific Illiteracy
25. Corporate funded research which encloses the intellectual output of public institutions
26. Pollution, especially water pollution
27. Corrupt institutions
28. Economic system based on proprietary development as opposed to open source product development
29. The Best and the Brightest as opposed to education
30. Disciplinary thinking, as opposed to systems thinking which acknowledges that things are connected.
31. Agricultural monoculture
32. Fossil fuel energy instead of renewable energy
33. Global supply chains via cost externalization
34. Externalization of social, environmental, and lifetime costs
35. Slavery, including wage slavery
36. Consequences of Colonialism + Neocolonialism
37. Depression
38. Insurance Racket
39. Corrupt Officials and Bribes
40. Racism, Unequal Access, and Redlining
41. Excessive Incarceration
42. Anomie, lack of self-esteem, lack of Character
43. Addictions - to substances, sex, power
44. Tariffs - the need for protectionism evaporates with access to open source technology and collaboration where everyone has access to productive capacity worldwide starting with their own communities.

Existing Pressing World Issues Efforts

• See Collaborative World-Saving Projects
• Projects to End Poverty

By Country

1. Tunisia.
   1. What are current mechanisms whereby the international community addresses evil building in certain countries? Are the measures reduced to sanctions, embargo, political pressure, transparency campaign? Could and should violence and coercion be used? Clearly after other attempts via gentler means (von Clausewitz). Open Source Legal Violence.
2. Russia

Housing

• Housing Speculation in the USA

Causes

1. Fear

Human Structures

1. Financialization

Psychography of Macrosocial Phenomena

This is an entertaining take on the relationship between nature and the power flows of society. We think that this is a brilliant encapsulation of the human psychology that makes the world what it is today. In particular - that both the cause and the solution is within each of us - we have the ultimate responsibility, not some 'tyrant on high'. But be careful about this being Russian RT propaganda of disempowering people - distracting people from the fact there are deliberate and organized international crime networks that are responsible for significant impacts. What is the level of that impact? This video does not get into any of that.

Universal Solutions

1. Open Source Hardware
2. Universal access to education (upgrading the operating system in peoples' heads)
3. Circular Economies
4. Mass creation of right livelihood, unjobbing, and conversion of people from employees to entrepreneurial agents
5. Open Source Product Development
6. Transparency
7. Ethical Economics
8. Distributed Production - Distributed Manufacturing - and especially Distributive Enterprise
9. Democracy
10. Afforestation - planting trees. For example, transitioning from fossil fuels to biofuels can be accomplished by repurposing wasteland and other use to Integrated Polyculture biomass production
11. Agricultural perennial polyculture
12. Renewable energy
13. Regenerative development of land
14. Economics based on full cost accounting
15. Building of (Renewable and self sustaining) Economies + Medical Systems + Infrastructure in Developing and/or Island countries, Or rural areas of ones that do not fit those prior conditions, yet face similar problems
16. Unlimited Liability Company
17. Termination of Public Offering which separates agency from the executive role, ie - enforces conflict of interest between owners and operators. (this is a longer discussion)
18. Just Internet - for Web 3.0, we need to start considering libre hardware chips. The internet runs on hardware. That hardware is proprietary and non-transparent. Step 1 for an open internet is open source hardware for the internet. This way, there are no back doors, as you can examine what everything does.
19. Biodiversity loss - solution at scale would be creating local microfactories and food systems to eliminate cause: resource predation. Secondary would be acquisition of desertified/destroyed/clearcut land and settling it with stewardship.

Prizes

Solving pressing world issues is noble work. Here is a list of prizes that honors such work.

1. Berggruen Prize
2. Right Livelihood Award
3. Nobel Peace Prize

Other Viewpoints of a Better Future

• WEF prediction - [1]

OSE Culture

OSE asks in its day-to-day - Are you solving your own problems, or are you helping others solve their problems? The correct answer is that by helping others solve their problems, you are also solving your own. Ie - altruism is ambitious.

Links

• Solving Healthcare
• Solving War.
• Solving Religion
• Solving Russia
• How To Fix Evil
• Pressing World Issues Log
• Sustainable Development Goals - embody a large portion of OSE's goals.
• Andre Gunder Frank - seminal thinker on the topic
• Structural Evil on Wikipedia - [2]