# Video of my LibrePlanet talk on the economics of public goods

**URL:** <https://community.humanetech.com/t/video-of-my-libreplanet-talk-on-the-economics-of-public-goods/5373>\
**Category:** Openness\
**Tags:** awareness, economics, funding, coordination\
**Created:** [March 31, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/video-of-my-libreplanet-talk-on-the-economics-of-public-goods/5373 "2022-03-31T13:50:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolftune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@wolftune](https://community.humanetech.com/u/wolftune)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/video-of-my-libreplanet-talk-on-the-economics-of-public-goods/5373/1 "2022-03-31T13:50:47Z")

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> **[Why our economy fails public goods like free software](https://framatube.org/w/ssYsun1bEXuL1nm5cT9ckw)**
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> This talk is titled "Why our economy fails public goods like free software," and was presented at LibrePlanet 2022 by Aaron Wolf. Aaron is co-founder of Snowdrift.coop and a long-time free software and free culture activist. In his day job as an...

(Link above uses PeerTube, and the talk is also at [Why our economy fails public goods like free software — GNU MediaGoblin](https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/why-our-economy-fails-public-goods-like-free-software-bf79/) )

Similar to the “meta problem” ideas but specific to economics and funding, this is a talk that sets out clear mental framework to think about the economics of open abundance over the current default of scarcity and exclusion. Sometime, I’ll get to writing out the same ideas in other formats.

As this was for the Free Software Foundation’s conference “LibrePlanet”, the framing is aimed at an audience that understands the need for software freedom, so if you’re unfamiliar with those concepts, it’s still accessible just know that it assumes that sort of perspective already.