My personal conclusion is that property should be owned by those who pay, and any price above cost that Consumers pay (what is usually called profit) should be handled as an investment from them. In that way, Users gain Freedom and control in the physical realm similar to the User Freedom RMS has helped owners syndicate through the GNU GPL.

But even if I am wrong about WHO should own (maybe it is the Workers as most suggest), either decision can be enforced by *us* by starting a *new* company who’s initial owners choose to apply some kind of “operational contract” that insures the constraints are held in place over the life of the corporation.

If that contract ‘solves’ some of the problems we see in raw capitalism, then we will outperform and eventually overgrow the current giants.

Could there be a way to start looking at modern commercial companies in a way where the balance of power is radically different from the current hegemony of owners?

What are some disadvantages of creating and presiding over our OWN corporation instead of begging others to “do the right thing”?

Can “the right thing” be phrased in contractual language so it can be enforced through regular property rights?