Competing with China

Frequently, people ask me how the OSE Paradigm can compete with China.


 * 1) When IP access barriers are eliminated in the open source economy, cost of production is reduced to production capitalization and labor.
 * 2) Cost of production capitalization, under the assumption of flexible fabrication assisted by automation - goes to zero in the scenario of community-supported manufacturing (think Open Source Fab Lab in every community). That is, a community in the next economy will have its own flexible, digital fabrication capacity.
 * 3) In the open source economy of DIY ethic and local production capacity and transparency - the cost of labor goes to zero. That is, with access to advanced and augmented reality instructionals for rapid learning, a person can get up from no skill to basic proficiency in making something on a rapid time scale. Indeed, such rapid learning could be the norm as the DIY ethic takes over.
 * 4) Further, in the limit of lifetime-design products, products need to be made only once, greatly reducing the cost to the individual. In the limit of DIY ethic, this cost, defined as external cost - goes to zero - if the person actually does the work themselves.
 * 5) Further, regulatory costs are minimized via technological transparency, a technologically-literate populace of the open source age.
 * 6) Technological literacy is facilitated by introduction of true technical education, not industry standard marketing forces.