Democratizing Access

The democratization of the tools of production means it’s easier to make something. The creation of new markets means there are more and more people to sell those things to, and the democratization of distribution means they are getting easier and easier to reach. Just as jobs are more competitive and threatened than ever, entrepreneurship has beco

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The ownership economy has the opportunity to address one of the biggest and most morally troubling issues of our time: economic inequality. As the wealth gap continues to widen to levels not seen since just before the Great Depression, the best way to combat this is to enable everyone to become an owner of wealth-building assets.

In the same way the internet was a democratizing force that gave everyone in the world the ability to easily create and share information, the next step is to give everyone in the world the ability to easily create and share value.

If we can democratize access to a veblen good, status becomes about being a part of something, rather than how much money you have. We already see this in products like Fractional and PartyBid, which enable collective ownership of highly sought-after NFTs, as well as in products like RabbitHole, which allow users to earn crypto by using the latest

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I explore how web3 technologies are democratizing wealth building and helping people build wealth through the ownership of assets. Organizations like Black Bitcoin Billionaires and others are using crypto to try to close the wealth gap in the US. In this section, I also explore ways where play-to-earn video games present income-generating opportuni... See more

Manzini describes diversified access as creating a system whereby users can enter in a number of different ways and get similar results. Dim Dom, a French toy-sharing company, achieves this access by allowing consumers to participate through a number of different entry points—in this case, prices and the period of subscription. The company satisfie

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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.

Leverage software to lower the barriers of entry for new companies and markets to emerge.