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--- open_access_economy [2019/02/03 23:04] – freeworlder
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 ====== Open access economy ======
-Open = Shared, free and decentralised
+An open access economy is a [[https://youtu.be/ErMOiiNyvBU|proposed]] alternative method of organising resources and services in human society.
-Access = Access to what you need
+Rather than access to the things we need being constrained by the ability to trade or pay money, an open access society promotes a mutual understanding that everyone in that society is fully supported with (at least) their basic living requirements unconditionally.
-Economy = Management of resources
-Central to the premise of an open access economy is prioritizing group interest over self-interest so as to minimize the negative effects of our actions on the environment and each other to instead working towards maximizing the creation of a better life and safer planet to live on for all.
+===== Terminology =====
+  * **Open** - Shared, transparent, decentralised
+  * **Access** - Unrestricted
+  * **Economy** - Management of resources
+//Note: The term [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access|open access]] is often used to describe an initiative to publish scholarly research under an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_license|open (free) license]]. An 'open access economy' extends this philosophy to wider socio-economic theory.//
+===== Social support =====
+In its most basic form, all citizens who engage in an open access economy understand the following two fundamentals:
+  - That they are fully supported by their community
+  - That they participate in supporting their community
+Clearly, one cannot happen without the other, but central to the philosophy is the movement away from explicit trade towards //[[explicit_vs_implicit_trade|implicit]]// trade, where reciprocity (or trade) is not expected uniformly, but rather within a much larger circle of mutual support.
+So for example, if someone cuts your lawn, there is no expectation that you must reciprocate some equivalent task or resource with that person. Instead, the other person understands that you will reciprocate in some other way, with some other person at some other time. This works for the other person as they too enjoy the benefit of others' reciprocal behaviour at other times.
+It could be even further summarised as replacing trade with trust.
+==== Trust over trade ====
+The reason we use trade is to enable us to exchange goods and services with strangers. We know this because we don't tend to request exchange within close-knit groups or families. These 'micro-cooperatives' work on trust.
+If, hypothetically, this level of trust existed in the greater community, it could operate on the same principle. And there are ways we can do this through [[education|re-education and awareness campaigns]], [[social_incentives|social incentives]], or even tracking reciprocal acts in the community.