The acceleration manifesto claims we haven’t moved forward much and that much of this is due to outdated capitalist policy. I’m inclined to agree; capitalist policy tends to “protect” an individual’s “right” to their knowledge, property, etc. The claim that this has counter intuitively slowed us down is totally true. The system is set up for stability, namely stability to make money. Where mariginal improvement on one large breakthrough is the biggest development. And look at it, companies like apple suing over the bounce when one hits the bottom of the screen in an app. All the energy put into that to protect the right of a company to sell their idea, a relatively meaningless one at that. These sorts of “rights” are what comes out of capitalism and is where open source gives me hope. However, at the end of the day, the flaw is people and companies protecting themselves for their rights to make money. And while a society that doesn’t make money is hard to conceive, how much progress would a society like that make? Maybe none, maybe a ton. Look at Nicoli Tesla. The man gave away almost everything he did for free, and most of his inventions form the basis of our contemporary technological society. Our belief structures need to fundamentally change before we can again move forward.