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Freedom to build.
Make something useful. Start a business. Take a chance. Initiative and the value it creates deserve to be rewarded.
THE PHILOSOPHY
What we build together
should move us forward.
Joint Capitalism is a philosophy for how we create, share, and govern prosperity. It connects the freedom to build with a responsibility to expand opportunity.
Its starting belief: people should have a meaningful stake in the value they help create, and a voice in the decisions that shape their lives.
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A meaningful stake.
People who help create value should have a fair opportunity to share in its rewards, through meaningful pay, participation, and pathways to ownership.
03
Success that circulates.
Use prosperity to widen opportunity. Reinvest in the people, places, and shared foundations that make future success possible.
04
Power that answers.
Give people a voice in decisions and the information they need to hold leaders accountable for the results.
THE CONVICTION
Free to create.
Responsible
to one another.
Freedom. Responsibility. Democracy.
THE CONVICTION AT THE CENTER
Our success should make
more success possible.
The principles become useful when they shape an agreement: who owns, who benefits, who decides, and how those decisions can be challenged.
Different institutions can choose different arrangements. The commitments stay open to scrutiny, and the implementation must change when evidence shows it is failing.
An open philosophy, meant to be questioned, tested, and developed.
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