Jonathan Bean
Societal Progress Collaborative
1 min readFeb 28, 2018

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I am not afraid because the best way to predict the future is to create it. I am working to create a future where 50% of the market is controlled by democratic cooperatives by the year 2023. I could argue that we already have an autocratic economy when the majority of capital is controlled by autocratic or oligarchal organizations and companies. But history has shown that concentrations of power inevitably fail and are replace by more decentralized models of power. Monarchs gave way to feudalism, feudal lords gave way to democratic presidents. The same will happen to the massively powerful CEOs and oligarchs of china, they shall, they shall give way to solidarity multi-stakeholder cooperatives, this is what we are building with Cooptocracy, the usOS. Stay tuned and share the news as we manifest the solidarity cooptocracy economy. Essentially we are using the power and security of the blockchains to create a goverance platform that will for the first time empower organizations to be governed by the people for the people by enabling frictionless decentralized governance. Imagine facebook owned and governed by the users? How much better would it serve the actual users rather than exploiting their minds and their data? You have asked for cooperative solidarity economy and you have received.

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Jonathan Bean
Societal Progress Collaborative

Regenerative and Solidarity Movement Building and Architect of Sustainy and us.OS, Cooptocracy Platform