WE SHOULD OWN THE ECONOMY

A vision for the future of capitalism (and the world).

This is the online manuscript for We Should Own The Economy, a book-in-progress about the future of capitalism (and the world). Readers can still invest in the project and earn a share of the revenue when it sells 👇🏻

We Should Own The Economy

I’m writing the chapters live for my newsletter subscribers. Here are the chapters so far.

Introduction: A new vision for the future of our world

Part I. We Should Own The Government

Cities should benefit residents

• The Scottish island that bought itself

• Cadbury built a city for workers—then gave it to them

• Ebenezer Howard built a better city than the government

• San Francisco should be profitable—instead property owners are

• Disney World has more autonomy than any US city

• Cities should own their land—like Vienna and Amsterdam

• Singapore—where your home loses value and everyone’s better off

• Stop idolizing Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Próspera

• An indigenous nation just built a better city than California Forever

• Decentralize America: The case for cities that don’t need Washington

States should support citizens

• US states should have autonomy—like EU countries

• We should create more US states

• We should replace Congress with citizens’ assemblies (currently researching)

Federal governance should become lightweight

• Decouple federal government from nation-states

Part II. We Should Own The Economy

Economies should benefit workers and stakeholders

• Mondragon as the new City State

• The Cooperatist Manifesto that inspired Mondragon

• How Silicon Valley got rich (mix this and the Mondragon article below together: a tale of two companies and who they benefit)

• Every company should be owned by employees

• Founders will get much richer by selling to employees

• Who should control AI?

• Companies should exit to community (currently researching)

Part III. We Should Own The Future

TBD

Conclusion

Cutting room floor

• 120 million owners in one generation

  • Breakout: No, KKR is not Equity Washing

  • By all means, let private equity save capitalism

• Mark Cuban’s right—end exorbitant CEO pay

• Stop pretending billionaires built the future

• We should innovate democracy—not eradicate it

• Cities should manage immigration (not nations)

• US states could have universal healthcare

Guest Lectures

Interviews with experts relevant to my research:

Democracy could be incredibly efficient

How Seattle is taxing exorbitant CEO pay

We need a fourth branch of government

Democracy should happen online

Creating a global safety net without nation-states

“I sold my company to my employees”

What comes after the sovereign individual?

How WeFunder democratizes business ownership

The company of the future looks like this

Metanational corporations are redesigning the world map