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\section{A Call To Action}
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{\fontsize{11pt}{11pt}\selectfont
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I don't want to run a business. I don't want to manage or profit from
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anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Man, Woman -
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young - old. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like
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that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's
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misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world
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there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide
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for everyone. This way of life can be free and beautiful... but we have
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lost the way.
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Greed has poisoned our souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has
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drone-striked us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but
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we have shut ourselves in. The robotics that gives abundance has left us in
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want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and
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unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than markets we need
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humanity. More than profitability we need kindness and gentleness.
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Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....
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The internet and the smartphone have brought us closer together. The
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very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in humanity -
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cries out for universal kinship - for the unity of us all. Even now my
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words could reach millions throughout the world - millions of
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despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that
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makes us choose either wage slavery or homeless destitution.
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To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now
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upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of those who fear
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the way of human progress. The rise of automation has taken so much away
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from so many, and the rewards, taken by the Corporations. As long as
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\textbf{we} have the ability to invent, \textbf{what which was taken} can
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\textbf{not} be kept for long....
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To the Makers among us, don't give your \textbf{time,} your
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\textbf{creativity,} your \emph{\textbf{life}} to a Corporation! An
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organization designed for the sole purpose of greed; Designed to take as
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much as possible for itself, to maximize shareholder value! Don't live
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for greed, \textbf{Design for Freedom!} We the Makers have the power to
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build Our Own automated production. \textbf{The power to create abundance!} We the Makers have the power to make this life Free and
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Beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure! In the name of
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Community and Free Information let us use this power, let us all unite
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towards a common project. Let us design a free and open source
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production system to provide \textbf{abundance for \emph{all}}\emph{.}
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By the promise of abundance Corporations have risen to power. But they
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lie! They do not fulfill that promise. \textbf{They never will!} Free
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markets free Corporations, but they enslave the people! Now let us
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design a better world, a world of local sustainable automated abundance
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- to do away with greed, with hate and domination. Let us design for a
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world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all
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humanity's freedom. \textbf{Makers!} in the name of Freedom and
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Community, \textbf{LET US ALL UNITE!}\footnote{Credit: Charlie Chaplin, Reworked by Kevin Harrington}
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}
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