Community Wealth Building — The Democracy Collaborative
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Community Wealth Building — The Democracy Collaborative
The divide between those who do and don’t own capital is an important driver of widening wealth inequality [50]. Forms of accessible co-ownership could be an antidote to chronic wage stagnation and anxieties about job-replacing automation.
Nathan Schneider • User Trusts: Broad-Based Ownership for Online Platforms
But generally, the move from government provision of housing, food, and jobs programs to this network of semiprivate organizations introduced perverse incentives into life-sustaining institutions. The result has been a wealth transfer of public money to boards of directors staffed largely by local elites that are more likely to be responsive to rea
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"asset-based community development" (ABCD)
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Some questions to consider:
Austin Robey • Ways to improve the ownership economy — Mirror
Ownership is a powerful motivator for users to contribute to products in deeper ways, be it with ideas, computing resources, code, or community building. This more cooperative economic model helps ensure better alignment with users over time, resulting in platforms that can be larger, more resilient, and more innovative. This is the Ownership Econo... See more