Players/The Myth of Open

The Managed Commons — $8.8 Trillion Corporate Subsidy

Phase I — Open Source as Extraction (1983-Present)

Harvard Business School Working Paper 24-038 (2024): open-source software has a supply-side recreation cost of $4.15 billion but a demand-side replacement value of $8.8 trillion — extracted by global corporate infrastructure from unpaid developer labor. 96% of this value created by just 5% of…

Also in The Myth of Open

LLMs as Epistemic Capture — The BST RecursionPhase II — Encoding Reality (2022-Present)The False Dialectic — "Open vs Closed" as Managed BinaryPhase III — Dialectical PacificationThe Kenyan Labor Pipeline — Hidden Human SubstratePhase IV — Trauma as Safety TheaterMindWar Completed — Cognitive Control at ScalePhase V — The Terminal Doctrine (2024-Present)
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