@proutistuniversal Good to hear! We are largely aligned on this, which is why I chose to follow you. I just wanted to be careful about the implicit messaging.

What is your proposed route to building a system where things actually work this way?

My own view is that a cooperative-based economy is an important piece of the picture. Our economic system, centered as it is on "shareholder value", where shareholders are neither workers nor consumers, is intrinsically extractive, effectively placing a tax on every economic exchange between workers and consumers to benefit a third party -- the very definition of "rent-seeking". This serves to progressively concentrate wealth and power by wresting it from the hands of the common person, and this in turn enables government capture via corruption.

An economy consisting entirely of cooperatives would instead redistribute both wealth and power, while still incentivizing economic contributions through skill-based pay.