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.

We should own the companies we work for

• Mondragon as the new City State

• The Cooperatist Manifesto that inspired Mondragon

• How Silicon Valley got rich

• Every company should be owned by employees

• Founders will get much richer by selling to employees

• 120 million owners in one generation

  • Breakout: No, KKR is not Equity Washing

  • By all means, let private equity save capitalism

We should govern the companies we work for

• Who should control AI?

Corporations will become the new city-states

• Companies will usurp the nation-state

• So we need to fix companies by:

  • Ending wage inequality

    • Mark Cuban’s right—end exorbitant CEO pay

    • Stop pretending billionaires built the future

Local governments will become lighter-weight

• US states should have autonomy—like EU countries

• We should create more US states

• We should innovate democracy—not eradicate it

• Opening our borders will solve just about everything

• What if countries had to compete for citizens?

• Decouple federal government from nation-states

• NATO could become a world government and create world peace

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