Open Source Market Economy
An Open Source Market Economy is a new economic contract to work within present day economies. Knowledge of production is presented freely in pursuit of "maximum benefit" before profit. The primary focus is on the generation of products. Profits or earnings potential come second. For this model to be of maximum benefit and become widely adopted, productive knowledge must be vastly accessibile and comprehensive so to accelerate knowledge transfer in a manner to generate products to be used for life. This model attempts to produce locally and individually before going to outside sources, yet does not ignore out-sourcing to generate a better product at reduced cost. Proprietary practices are translated for local production to the highest degree possible in order to maximize benefit to freely distribute as a means to produce for local and personal production. Widespread adoption of this general method will provide fertile ground for the advancement of abundance.
Maximum Benefit vs. Earnings and Profit
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Price "At Cost"
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.
The Replicator (Person)
Replicators, quasi-consumer/producers, have access to instruction-by-instruction knowledge of assembly. This knowledge is shared freely on the web so anyone may choose or have the ability to become replicators. 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.
Replicator propagation advance competition in a manner to increase the value of currency that purchases a product.
Purchaser Savings & Value Acceleration
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 to produce an item of the same or better quality, cost will either remain the same or become reduced. Three or more replicators that occupy the same market will likely compete and sell for less. The open source nature of the enterprise ensures cartels or monopolies do not form for purposes of artificial scarcity. The more replicators that occupy the same market space, the further benefit to purchasers.
Open Source Intellectual Property Agreements
This agreement is generally used by large legacy market participants to better compete in a growing Open Source marketplace. Property, in essense, is shared between firms to generate products of greater value. This can prevent corporations from losing competitive advantage by becoming too monopolistic, bureaucratic, confusing, and therefore costly. Firms that produce the best products or assembly methods share information freely within a partner network for maximum competitive advantage for maximum benefit for both the producer and consumer. Partnerships are generated through contractual agreements that ensure products are generated to the highest standards for the least amount of cost. Each agreement will differ according to the mutual objectives of the productive agents.
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.