We (the users/consumers) do not control the composition or price of ANYTHING we purchase.

The owners have fooled us into believing we can ‘demand’, but in the end it is only the OWNERS that decide.

Why can’t we have simple hybrid vehicles such as Henry Ford’s experiment with the model A? Why can’t we buy food or medicine that is safe and natural while paying only the costs (including the workers’ wages) for it’s production? What if WE owned the petrol fields, drills, pumps, tankers and trucks? We would most likely pay the workers more than they currently receive while our price at the pump would be far less since the externality of profit becomes meaningless when the consumer (say of an apple) is the OWNER of the physical Sources for that object (the land, trees, tractors, water rights, tools, etc.).

Do you realize Forbes magazine called water “The Next Oil” in terms of profitability? Who owns your water supply? How much do you pay? How close is that price to cost? Does it matter? What about toothpaste, burgers, taxis, television, cell-phones, socks?

We (the users/consumers) will continue to cry and beg from the owners until we finally awake from this dream and become OWNERS of the physical Sources of Production ourselves under an agreement/contract/treaty/constitution that causes control to flow to new users in a manner similar to what the FSF’s GNU GPL already does for information.