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I don't see anything in this design approach that is inaccessible to people living in and embracing capitalism who still want to preserve in themselves a healthy humanness. People are free to manage their own desires in whatever way they choose; consumption and Jones-chasing is optional. Making an honest, useful, tangible object is both a practical and a spiritual good, and too important to be held a political hostage.

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Open-source designs, by definition, exist outside of capitalism, because there is no owner of private (intellectual) property who has the ability to profit off of those designs.

Capitalists can appropriate open-source designs to make them profitable, or they can leave capitalism in order to interact with those designs. Those are the options.

The project more specifically also aims to teach people that the means of production can be theirs to own (their own hands and tools, perhaps with the exception that someone likely used capitalist enterprises to make those tools and raw materials available).

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