What if... everybody who wasn’t one of the 1% just worked together?
Maybe enter your email - and if we get enough people we can see what
that looks like.
We are building in public and have a vision that one day soon, PublicOwned will
list and
support companies, businesses and services owned by the general
public - meaning people and business owners who are part of the 90% -
because technically it’s the top 10% of the world’s wealthiest
people who are essentially controlling entire markets.
But, we don’t want to just list these types of businesses and companies - we want to help create and grow them too.
So the word "support" above is very important. There are currently about 600M+ Entrepreneurs and 400M+ Small Businesses in the world - who create 50% of the jobs - both in the US and the world, yet possess only 15% of assets and wealth of the world - a number that’s rapidly declining fast (ie. in the last 5 years, the top 5 richest literally doubled their wealth).
If we wanted to, we could fund an initiative that could not only self-fund many of our own ideas and businesses, but that could also make strategic purchases, which would help stabilize and price-control certain entire markets.
So, imagine if this type of effort was on a much larger, more focused - yet still casual, easy, passive and not time-intensive scale.
For example, we could probably buy Kroger (or a comparable competitor), who controls a massive market share in the grocery industry for $50B as a collective, then just make it a "public" owned company that is still a for-profit company, but just not on a greedy, self-serving, inflationary level.
There are more and more of these types of businesses, companies and even grocery stores popping up all over the world - that are either majority Employee-Owned or Customer-Owned or both. Let’s just make more...
This is super simple. Rich people are constantly pooling their money together to fractionally buy up assets and obtain more wealth. They aren’t ashamed of working together in this fashion either - so why are we? We aren’t using our most blatant and obvious super power. Our sheer size and numbers.
If just the Entrepreneurs and Business Owners got together (only) - that would be about 1B people globally. Then, if we were all to put a forgettable $5 into a "pot" every month - we could deploy $5B on a ridiculous amount of things every, single month - including infrastructure that would support our own members - as well as investing in (or buying) smaller, privately owned companies that could strategically provide some sort of benefit to a large number of us - and just funding for ourselves - and our members in general. Now - imagine if we put in a little more than $5/mo.
Combined - it would do something...maybe not immediately for you (but we have a simple idea for that), but if we deploy money/capital in enough places we will all start to see the affects.
And, since Lotteries are not legal - we could either have a Non-Profit arm that holds the most insane raffles ever - since we could pool together a fund worth billions each month. Or, we could do the most insane Sweepstakes ever heard of. Simple.
So, everybody gets a real chance. Wouldn’t that alone be worth it? On any given day what do any of us really have a "chance" at?
To keep things light and interesting though - we propose coming right out of the gates and simply framing this entire initiative around a simple, voting-based system - where we could all contribute and input on how money should be spent/deployed. But, where we could all also vote on the best ideas, businesses, companies, members and things to fund.
We must start to own the platforms we use or we’re going to always be making some small group disproportionately rich. And, how can those types of people possibly have our best interests at hand?
The tech we build as a Coalition/Collective (once finished) is handed over to members, users and customers and typically becomes 75% member-owned right out the gates.
Plus, we do believe in decentralized based strategies, companies, organizations - and doing this whole initiative in a semi-decentralized way. So, we are hoping to get a group large enough together that we can easily help fund and manage all the necessary non-profits, organizations, support and leadership necessary to put a simple US and world-based, organizational framework in place - to help push more of these types of decentralized platforms, technology and ventures through.
But, we don’t want to just list these types of businesses and companies - we want to help create and grow them too.
So the word "support" above is very important. There are currently about 600M+ Entrepreneurs and 400M+ Small Businesses in the world - who create 50% of the jobs - both in the US and the world, yet possess only 15% of assets and wealth of the world - a number that’s rapidly declining fast (ie. in the last 5 years, the top 5 richest literally doubled their wealth).
If we wanted to, we could fund an initiative that could not only self-fund many of our own ideas and businesses, but that could also make strategic purchases, which would help stabilize and price-control certain entire markets.
We already make billionaires more rich every day. If we change our collective mindset and strategy, we could easily affect most global markets.
Historically, small groups of boycotters in different cultures around the world have continuously managed to change major systems that impacted their societies. Some statistics say all you really need is about 10% of people to do so.So, imagine if this type of effort was on a much larger, more focused - yet still casual, easy, passive and not time-intensive scale.
For example, we could probably buy Kroger (or a comparable competitor), who controls a massive market share in the grocery industry for $50B as a collective, then just make it a "public" owned company that is still a for-profit company, but just not on a greedy, self-serving, inflationary level.
There are more and more of these types of businesses, companies and even grocery stores popping up all over the world - that are either majority Employee-Owned or Customer-Owned or both. Let’s just make more...
The concept of "Fair Markets" and "Fair Competition"
If you introduce one player to the grocery market, who prices things competitively and is owned by customers and members of the general public - what do you think is going to happen to those other grocery conglomerates who willingly and happily inflate their prices too??? They’ll either bring them down to stay competitive or they’ll quickly lose customers and eventually shudder/close.This is super simple. Rich people are constantly pooling their money together to fractionally buy up assets and obtain more wealth. They aren’t ashamed of working together in this fashion either - so why are we? We aren’t using our most blatant and obvious super power. Our sheer size and numbers.
If just the Entrepreneurs and Business Owners got together (only) - that would be about 1B people globally. Then, if we were all to put a forgettable $5 into a "pot" every month - we could deploy $5B on a ridiculous amount of things every, single month - including infrastructure that would support our own members - as well as investing in (or buying) smaller, privately owned companies that could strategically provide some sort of benefit to a large number of us - and just funding for ourselves - and our members in general. Now - imagine if we put in a little more than $5/mo.
People constantly have $5 - $100 in their pockets and don’t think it can do anything for them - so it usually ends up going right into the "system" that funnels it up to some billionaire.
Combined - it would do something...maybe not immediately for you (but we have a simple idea for that), but if we deploy money/capital in enough places we will all start to see the affects.
Sidenote: How to make it impact all of us instantly...
It’s actually simple and something the government ironically regulates in the US quite relentlessly - even though it helped build this nation. Lotteries.And, since Lotteries are not legal - we could either have a Non-Profit arm that holds the most insane raffles ever - since we could pool together a fund worth billions each month. Or, we could do the most insane Sweepstakes ever heard of. Simple.
So, everybody gets a real chance. Wouldn’t that alone be worth it? On any given day what do any of us really have a "chance" at?
To keep things light and interesting though - we propose coming right out of the gates and simply framing this entire initiative around a simple, voting-based system - where we could all contribute and input on how money should be spent/deployed. But, where we could all also vote on the best ideas, businesses, companies, members and things to fund.
We Can All Easily Make This Happen (and our Tech Collective actually already has most of it built and ready to go)
We are a global coalition of technologists who create simple, high-end technology + solutions that rival most of the famous websites, apps and technology that people commonly use - and we are retrofitting it all to be nearly free - typically $1-$5/mo. completely eliminating tons of monthly, recurring fees, as well as expensive one-time services that people tend to pay to support their businesses, interests, etc.We must start to own the platforms we use or we’re going to always be making some small group disproportionately rich. And, how can those types of people possibly have our best interests at hand?
The tech we build as a Coalition/Collective (once finished) is handed over to members, users and customers and typically becomes 75% member-owned right out the gates.
Plus, we do believe in decentralized based strategies, companies, organizations - and doing this whole initiative in a semi-decentralized way. So, we are hoping to get a group large enough together that we can easily help fund and manage all the necessary non-profits, organizations, support and leadership necessary to put a simple US and world-based, organizational framework in place - to help push more of these types of decentralized platforms, technology and ventures through.
