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| As a child, I wondered how ants organized society so each had plenty,
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| while the TV showed fly-covered children clenching empty steel bowls.
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| The TV asked for money to help but surely the ants didn't have money.
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| Later I began reading and pondering the strange GNU GPL copyright license.
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| It requires every user gain access to the sources of the products they use.
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| But most users don't care about the sources, so why would they need access?
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| I thought about this for years. What a curious idea.
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| It would be like gaining ownership in a fruit tree when you eat that fruit.
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| I eventually saw this could work if the tree owner
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| used some of the profit you paid for those fruits
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| to buy even more land and trees and water-rights
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| required to grow even more fruit in the future
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| and 'vest' those shares to you, the consumer.
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| I finally realized this arrangement eventually
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| eliminates the usual need to buy those goods.
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| The owner of a tree does not buy that fruit,
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| he owns it even before it has been picked!
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| Even if others do all the work,
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| there is no sale and no profit.
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| This reduces barrier-to-entry
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| and promotes permanence.
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| Hmm, but what about the poor workers?
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| Turns out every worker is also a consumer of *something*.
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| So they also need property ownership in sources to assure that production.
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| If workers gain sufficient access to sources which vest as work is completed,
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| they acquire the property ownership required to avoid profit, interest and rent.
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| If workers swap skills *before* production begins,
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| they have incentive to build permanent solutions
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| since they are 'paid' by the agreement either way.
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