Keynote: Postcapitalism
summary
Argues that open-source software and automation push marginal costs toward zero, claiming open-source disrupts profit by undercutting commercial competitors with freely released tools like Mini-Mesos and an ElasticSearch on Mesos manages itself framework that automates deployment, runs fault‑tolerant clusters with far fewer humans, and is already usable. Points to 3D printing scaling up to full houses and concentrated solar with thermal storage (Atacama example) plus ~30% German renewables as evidence, calling this a pathway to 3D-printed houses and solar storage and to a postcapitalist squeeze on wages and rents.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:00Jamies story
- 3:33Transitions economic and political
- 9:05Contradictions
- 9:22Capital gets up and leaves
- 11:14Detroit
- 11:55East Yorkshire
- 13:29Inequality
- 15:41Marginal Costs
- 19:14Are we there yet
- 24:17The windmill
- 26:26Solar power
- 27:59Selfie sticks
- 29:47Software
- 34:12Universal Basic Income
- 35:48St Ives
- 36:36Industrial Revolution
- 37:50Conclusion
- 38:13Picket Line
- 39:51Hillsborough
- 41:41We are complicit
- 42:13Small decisions
- 42:59Dark future
- 47:21Housing
- 48:22Basic Income
- 50:32Marginal Cost
- 54:56Democratic Sizing
