Toward a Network of Mutual Support

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Everything on this site so far describes one company. But if this bootstrap method — perpetual trust ownership, automation focus, sortition governance — actually works and other people or groups adopt it too, a natural question follows: could these entities help each other, the way a family of cooperatives already does at Mondragon Corporation, one of the largest and longest-running worker-cooperative networks in the world?

This is a far-off dream, not a plan — nothing like it exists yet, and it depends entirely on the more basic bootstrap idea working at all, more than once. But it’s worth describing, because it’s the natural extension of “I hope this method spreads” into “and once it has, here’s what could come next.”

Why I Think This Time Is Different

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Everything else on this site describes what I’m building and why. This page is different — it’s my own opinion, based on 50 years of hands-on, cross-disciplinary experience, not something I’m asking you to take as settled fact. I could be wrong. But I think it’s important to say plainly, because it’s the belief underneath everything else here.

I don’t think this round of automation is like the others. Historically, when a new technology automated a category of work, people moved to a different category — farm labor gave way to industrial jobs, industrial automation gave way to service and knowledge work. That pattern gets cited constantly as a reason not to worry this time either: automation has always eventually created more jobs than it destroyed, so why would now be different?

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