Thanks for your insightful post and those three levels. The map on to other things I've written on my website about fostering a mixed economy with a healthy balance of of subsistence (DIY), gift (cooperation), exchange (capitalism), and planned (democracy) transactions.

There is so much local energy available -- but it is so often (mis)directed towards other areas -- like "supernormal stimuli" created by a few to concentrate attention and wealth.

As Rene Dubois said: "Think globally, act locally, plan modestly".

Here is something I wrote to the Markle Foundation in 2001 (17 years ago!) on funding FOSS for people cooperating on self-driving car software and other things (BTW I was referring there to CMU students there who even back then I was told were using such software on public roads):
https://pdfernhout.net/on-funding-digital-public-works.html#...
"Consider again the self-driving cars mentioned earlier which now cruise some streets in small numbers. The software "intelligence" doing the driving was primarily developed by public money given to universities, which generally own the copyrights and patents as the contractors. Obviously there are related scientific publications, but in practice these fail to do justice to the complexity of such systems. The truest physical representation of the knowledge learned by such work is the codebase plus email discussions of it (plus what developers carry in their heads).
We are about to see the emergence of companies licensing that publicly funded software and selling modified versions of such software as proprietary products. There will eventually be hundreds or thousands of paid automotive software engineers working on such software no matter how it is funded, because there will be great value in having such self-driving vehicles given the result of America's horrendous urban planning policies leaving the car as generally the most efficient means of transport in the suburb. The question is, will the results of the work be open for inspection and contribution by the public? Essentially, will those engineers and their employers be "owners" of the software, or will they instead be "stewards" of a larger free and open community development process?
Open source software is typically eventually of much higher quality [ http://www.fsf.org/software/reliability.html ] and reliability because more eyes look over the code for problems and more voices contribute to adding innovative solutions. About 35,000 Americans are killed every year in driving fatalities, and hundreds of thousands more are seriously injured. Should the software that keeps people safe on roads, and which has already been created primarily with public funds, not also be kept under continuous public scrutiny?
Without concerted action, such software will likely be kept proprietary because that will be more profitable sooner to the people who get in early, and will fit into conventional expectations of business as usual. It will likely end up being available for inspection and testing at best to a few government employees under non-disclosure agreements. We are talking about an entire publicly funded infrastructure about to disappear from the public radar screen. There is something deeply wrong here."