We Don't Work for Money

Above video courtesy of The RSA


The Open Source movement is evidence that money is a poor way to motivate humans in an information based economy. Open Source software is software that has been produced by programmers and developers for free in their spare time. They then allow others to modify this freely. Open Source software is illegal to sell and drives much of the world of computing. The largest projects have hundreds of contributors and organisational structures.

As we advance away from having to provide our own physical labour our economic model must change. People are doing similar work as they do at work but in their spare time for free.