Artificial scarcity is best explained, I think, as not getting access to the things that you need that are already produced. This is something that all monetary systems have as a fundamental flaw regardless if you have a government or not. It creates destructive behavior among people, such as competition, aggression, greed, jealousy, theft, poverty, class stratification, and murder, among other things.

What I have come to see the past few years is that people, and capitalists in particular, are mostly in denial of this because of their long-held belief and dogma that capitalism is the best economic system there could ever be without actually looking at its structural flaws. Socialism and communism have the same flaws, and I am certainly not supporting these kinds of economic systems because a redistribution of wealth under the threat of violence will not create a moral society. All three economic systems promote artificial scarcity because there is no profit in making things less profitable and sustainable; that is why, for example, we get things like planned obsolescence and consumerism.

So what I am suggesting is that people need to start thinking beyond the concept of money and government and think along the lines of open source and decentralization of all aspects of human society. Open source as a concept can be and is already applied to many areas today, which is all about collaboration where everyone can freely participate in the process, and it’s entirely decentralized.

Over 60% of the world’s servers that are running have Linux as an operating system, which is open source. We also have Android mobile phones, which are open source. Inventions, journalism, production, programming, and education are already made open source, and there are probably many more examples of this.

These are good and informative presentations of various things that promote a higher and more holistic level of thought.