Open Source Market Economy

An Open Source Market Economy is a new economic contract of sorts. In OSM, the knowledge of capital (productive technology) is presented freely in pursuit of "maximum benefit" rather than "profit." The primary focus is the generation of products. Profits or earnings potential come second. For this free sharing of knowledge to be of maximum benefit to everyone, including the knowledge generators, it must rely on this fundamental reason: the vast accessibility of productive knowledge, the ability to generate products, benefits everyone by cost reductions by actively prioritizing the means to produce for local and personal production. Widespread adoption of this general method will provide fertile ground for the pursuit of abundance.

Price "at cost" by default

Goods purchased in a Open Source Market Economy are encouraged for production "at cost" by default. This occurs due to widespread information and resources available to generate a product locally or personally. The cost is ideally based on resource availablility and the time taken to generate a product. The product and materials used to generate a product focus first on local resources and second to regional and global areas, a process of prioritizing in-sourcing before out-sourcing.

Replicators

Replicators, quasi-consumer/producers, will have access to instruction-by-instruction knowledge of assembly. A map of resources listed by community and region is available to use for free or at cost in product construction. A location to create these items will also be needed. This will mean the installment of a community support fabrication facility or Open Source Fab Lab. Because these designs are open sourced, tinkerers will further refine the designs until they can self assemble. When self assembly is accomplished in a product area, this will nullify labor value, enabling product creation as abundantly as air.

Replicators advance competition in a manner to increase the value of currency that purchases a product.

Purchaser Savings

Replicators that become entrepreneurs can sell products for the price of labor or based on supply and demand. The first replicator of a product may sell an item in a town based on market value. When a second replicator enters the market environment and produces an item of the same or better quality cost will either remain the same or become reduced. Three replicators that occupy the same market will through competition be forced to sell for less. The more replicators that occupy the same market space, the further this benefits purchasers.

Conclusion

Due to the nature of a preserved pact of sharing or networking, under the right conditions, the pursuit of maximum benefit will accelerate to a point profits are abandoned and earnings fall. Money, though may be generated less over time, will increase in value until the neccissity of exchange and the currency that it represents is no longer required to sustain livlihoods. At this stage no market per se exists, merely an Open Source Economy.