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The most common objection to accessism, as well as other open-access/resource-based economies is the so-called economic calculation problem.

Now, some in the socialist camp have handwaved it by saying that we can broadly approximate the basic needs of people and communities, so it’s close enough, or that once the workers seize the means of production, actually having to be efficient won’t matter.

Others in the market socialist camp, have instead embraced the free market as the most efficient way of solving the problem, instead opting merely to have coops and/or state-owned companies as the ones producing.

But the answer to the question instead is in the palm of the ones mocking the other’s economics as inefficient and deadly.

And no, I’m not talking about your stereotypical pampered rich kid, criticizing capitalism, and quoting Marx like scripture, on his high-end flagship smartphone, since this applies just as much to the free-market fans, making and sharing memes mocking the former.

Because inside each little computing device, be it some low-end, off-brand smartphone, or the most advanced and distributed supercomputer used by some Bond-esque secret service agency, there are algorithms, kernels, drivers and load balancers, making sure every component of your phone, from power, to input, to processing and networking, is organized gracefully and efficiently.

And before you say that a global economy is different from browsing Youtube, most of the crucial software is the same, be it used by:

• your low-end smartphone;
• your personal computer;
• the server hosting this website;
• the AWS distributed clusters making sure someone’s Amazon Prime Videos are delivered to him and millions of other users with bandwidth optimized across all the regions of the planet;
• some Linux supercomputer currently conducting cutting edge research.

We don’t need to speculate if such a resource-distribution system works or not, or how scalable it is, we know it already does.

Because modern computing already solved a problem that economics has failed to: how to coordinate heterogenous resources without chaos, and without tyranny.

When your laptop runs a program, the CPU, memory, peripherals and network aren’t auctioned off in a bidding war between processes.

You don’t have to decide whether your browser or your music player “deserves” RAM, or if your video has enough funding to use your mouse and keyboard.
The operating system simply balances resources in real time, allocating what is needed, where it is needed.

Now imagine if computing worked like capitalism:

• Every app would need its own budget.
• Every process would negotiate contracts.
• Crashes and bottlenecks would be constant.

Absurd, right? Yet that’s exactly how our economies still work.

In the same way operating systems distribute computing resources efficiently without markets, an Open Access Economy would use cybernetic balancing&feedback, AI, and open data to coordinate physical resources.

• Imagine farms and food distribution that are balanced like computing workloads.
• Imagine housing allocated by need and availability, not speculation.
• Imagine transport coordinated like network routing.
• Image energy shared and stabilized like a power grid, not traded as a commodity.

But such a system introduces a terrifying possibility, of software being softly tweaked to make sure certain groups are marginalized and silenced when it comes to their share of the Earth’s common resources, just like today, in our capitalistic, monetary system, yet also utterly dependent and locked in to the flawed code.

The same situation happened decades ago, in the software community, when they realized the software they bought, even for exorbitant prices, could be restricted, or even rendered useless with one update, or computer/platform switch, leaving them beholden to greedy mega-corporations and regional restrictions.

This led to the creation of open-source, and the free software movement, by people determined in the beliefs that the computer, and it’s software, should belong to the users, not some faceless corporation, stealing and spying on their own customers.

It wasn’t an easy fight.
While individual hackers had to start from scratch, the same corporations that once had such a large market share had way more programmers to pay, and already established software to compete with, as well as plenty of money and influence used to smear the nascent movement.

Yet, year by year, it grew more and more complete, to the extent that you can legally own a computer who’s schematics, both hardware and software, are totally free and transparent, without paying a single dime, except for the actual physical gear.

But just as software was liberated from proprietary code, humanity can liberate the essentials of life from proprietary economics.

Most people today take open source for granted. Your phone, your browser, even the internet itself runs on software created, shared, and maintained freely.

No one pays a license fee every time a packet crosses the web. No one has to bid for CPU cycles just to load a page. The infrastructure works because the knowledge is open and the system balances resources automatically.

But when it comes to the economy: food, housing, transport, energy, we’re still stuck in the equivalent of closed, proprietary code. Access is locked behind paywalls, patents, rents, and markets. The result is artificial scarcity in a world that already has the tools to provide abundance.

Open source has already shown the world that cooperation beats competition when it comes to progress, and accessism extends that principle from code to civilization itself.

The question is no longer whether the idea works.
We already live inside a working proof every time we open a browser or send a message. The only question is whether we will keep treating food, shelter, and energy like licensed software from the 1980s, or finally free them as part of our shared human commons.

The future is open.
The future is access.

“The future is always all around us, waiting, in moments of transitions, to be born in moments of revelation.
No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us.
We know only that it is always born in pain.”
— J. Michael Strazynski

One of the most frequent accusations of previous proto-accessist(resource-based economy) groups is their total lack of a transition plan, of how to reach from here to there.

More frequently, it can be summed up as:
“Automation is going to kill the economy, something something collapse, and then we are all going to live in our little automated garden of Eden.”

Such vagueness, as well as the ossification of such groups, simply waiting until the system is here, has resulted in ideological drift, the collapse of social reach, and ultimately becoming forgotten, ironically, just as automation and AI is starting to impact the global economy, and the livelihood of billions.

This is one of the reasons why the Accessist International was formed, to be a organizing force, backing the establishment of open access communities and political parties, in order to test and bring to the day to day life, as well as turn accessism into a voice on the political scene, showing an alternative world is possible.

Now, you may ask how we can secure the actual infrastructure, what marxists used to call “the means of production” for the benefit of the common man.

Maybe:

• A decentralized algorithmic DAO buys up collapsed corporations with the extra margin from automated industry.
• Maybe communities reclaim abandoned infrastructure and put it in a trust.
• Maybe some eccentric billionaire grows a conscience.
• Or some movement retakes it by force and guards it from corporate-state capture.

Frankly, how the transition happens is less important than what happens next.

And that happens is the creation of an automated, scientific, open economy where the engines of production are transparently balanced with the planet’s resources and consumer needs, without requiring major human oversight or labour.

The Accessist International does not imagine this transition as smooth or painless.

The old system will resist with every tool it has, from propaganda to surveillance.

There will be struggle, confusion, and attempts to force automation into the service of profit and control. But history is not on its side.

Just as feudalism collapsed when capitalism made it obsolete, capitalism will collapse when accessism renders it irrelevant.

Now, you might ask:
Who runs this new system?
Who distributes all these resources?

Not a state. Not a corporation.
Machines, code, algorithms, and open-source infrastructure that intelligently manage resources for all inhabitants, human and otherwise.
No state, no corporation needed.

We already trust technology to handle complex systems, from weather forecasting to air traffic control to global shipping.
Why not let it coordinate food distribution?
Or housing logistics?
Or energy grids?

But unlike capitalist systems, where this tech is owned and weaponized by the few, a Open-Access Economy is transparent, distributed, and anti-authoritarian.
No one owns it.
Everyone shapes it.

And if that sounds like a dream, remember: much of the technology is already here.
The capitalist class built it to automate us out of work, but we can use it to automate capitalism out of relevance, the brightest prospect for an unparalleled positive impact on human freedom and planetary balance.

“An era may be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”

— Arthur Miller

In various pages of this site, you may have noticed us using the word Convergence Point at multiple points on this site.

But what is the Convergence Point?

It is the ultimate economic inflection point, the moment at which any economic economy is cheaper to be done by an automated agent, than a human worker.

And because of capitalism’s relent drive to compete and innovate, once the Convergence Point happens, automating away your workforce becomes not only optional, but increasingly mandatory, to maintain one’s economic edge.

Of course, the destabilizing and impoverishing effects of it are bound to happen way before then, since different sectors of the economy automate at different rates, but this is the point at which capitalism becomes physically impossible, and accessism a necessity.

So, what can be done?

Here’s where Accessism comes in. At the Convergence Point, we’ll be forced to confront the obvious: the purpose of production isn’t profit, it’s life itself.

In an open-access economy, abundance is intelligently managed for all inhabitants, human and otherwise, distributed as access rather than rationed by wages or markets.

Automation, networks, and AI are not threats.
They’re the infrastructure of a society where nobody has to earn survival.

At the Convergence Point, the choice will no longer be “capitalism or socialism,” but:

• A system of abundance and freedom
  or
• A system of surveillance and control

Because make no mistake: if capitalism tries to survive past the Convergence Point, it won’t become freer or more efficient, it will become monstrous.
Automation without access means permanent unemployment, universal dependency, and authoritarian control of resources.
A digital feudalism, worse than any dystopia imagined.

And to prevent that, accessism needs to be the political alternative people for the 21st century people need, and for the Accessist International to be a constellation of parties, groups and candidates like you and me, ready to lay a brick at the governance of the future.

A vibrant presence in the political scene and public consciousness, ready for the trials of the future.

One that people can look forward to, as the Convergence Point and it’s chaos steadily approaches.

Will you be part of this political vanguard?

Why Millennials (and Gen Z) Already Get It

For younger generations, the Convergence Point isn’t an abstract debate, it’s lived reality. We grew up in the rubble of 2008, watching wages stagnate while productivity soared. We entered the workforce in the shadow of gig jobs, debt, and rent that devours half a paycheck.

Now AI threatens to displace us entirely.

We were told: “Study hard, work hard, and you’ll succeed.” But the system is clearly rigged. Our generation already knows the old promises are bankrupt. We’re not afraid of questioning capitalism, because it failed us first.

The Convergence Point is where the frustration of a generation meets the opportunity of technology. It’s where we decide whether automation liberates humanity, or enslaves it.

Every era thinks it’s living through history. But this time, we truly are.

The Convergence Point isn’t centuries away, it’s within our lifetimes.

Maybe even this decade.

The only real question is:

When we arrive, will we cling to scarcity and control, or step into abundance and freedom?

The answer will define not just economics, but civilization itself.

The story of economics has always been the story of scarcity.

Markets rationed life by price. States rationed it by bureaucracy.

Both assumed that people had to work in order for society to function.

That age is ending.

Artificial intelligence and automation have torn a hole through the old logic, by making it so tasks, first digital, then increasingly physical, can be created on demand, with zero or little human input.

Production costs in field after field will fall toward zero, provoking both overproduction, and a deflationary spiral.

And with that, the myth of scarcity is breaking down. And when scarcity breaks down, so does capitalism.

Why Markets Cannot Survive Automation

Capitalism, at it’s core, requires a reasonably complex economy, with both producers and employers requiring money to acquire resources for supplies and development, while players on each side also competing with each other for said money.

Yet automation introduces a slowly expanding poison in the whole process, allowing more work to be done without requiring workers, who’s salaries end up first not keeping up with productivity gains, a process which we are already seeing.

Gradually, as more workers start competing for an ever shrinking pool of jobs, wages inevitably start being cut, further reducing revenue for the companies, which now have fewer people even able to afford their products, culminating in the simple paradox of who can how can companies even make money at a certain point, if no one has any money left to buy it from it.

Eventually, the logic of the old system devours itself. To cling to it means spiraling unemployment, authoritarianism, and collapse.

The open-access economy is not a utopia. It is the only system left standing when the others consume themselves.

Tyranny or Liberation

AI will not wait for us to decide. It is already being deployed as a weapon of control — to entrench monopolies, expand surveillance, and tighten borders.

This is the path of techno-feudalism: abundance locked behind walls, controlled by a new aristocracy of corporations and states.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

The same tools can be used to build a civilization where access to food, housing, healthcare, and education is guaranteed, where innovation serves life rather than profit, and where no one is forced into drudgery to survive.

The fork is clear: a future of digital tyranny, or a future of open access.

The Final Revolution

History does not move backward. Just as feudalism, and it’s economical and political giants fell to mercantilist changes, which then gave way under the weight of capitalism, so too will capitalism collapse under the weight of automation.

We stand at the last great turning point. A world without war, poverty, hunger, or debt is no longer a dream.

It is the logical consequence of the tools we already hold in our hands.

The only question is whether we embrace it willingly…or are dragged into it through chaos and collapse.

Either way, the outcome is inevitable.
The open-access economy is coming.

You have taken your first step in being part of the defining political and economical revolution of the 21st century.

Accessism is a new political vision built for the age of abundance — a society where technology and knowledge are used to meet human needs directly, without money, markets, or scarcity.

You can read a fuller introduction here:

What Is Accessism?

Likewise, you can learn more about our mission by checking out our site, and it’s various articles.

We cannot rely on old idea, since the old systems: capitalism, socialism, communism, were all born in an age of scarcity.

They tied survival to labor, rationed life through markets or states, and promised justice through struggle.

But the 21st century, and it’s automation, digital networks, and ecological urgency demand something different, since the future cannot be built on outdated blueprints.

Our goal is to apply the methods of science and technology as the guiding principles of economics, so that war, poverty, hunger, debt, environmental degradation and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but totally unacceptable.

The technology is there, and the recent advancements in computing and AI have made the transition to an open access economy, not only possible, but mandatory, with the only alternative being a steady destabilization and pauperization of society, that we are already seeing, and that will reach it’s peak at Convergence Point, but likely earlier.

And the International is our way of bringing this alternative to reality, a coalition of political parties and emergent organisations and groups, dedicated to spreading awareness and political support for accessism, as the economic alternative the world needs, and that technology finally makes possible.

This is just the beginning.
The Accessist International is where those who refuse to accept artificial scarcity come together.

Here, we will share ideas, build tools, and lay the groundwork for a society free of needless struggle.

Liberation begins with access.