Universal Basic Ownership
Broaden the opportunity to participate in productive ownership.
Founder Vision · Stoin
Increase human freedom.
This isn’t a business plan. It isn’t a white paper. And you don’t need to read any of it to hire Stoin.
Synthetic as a Service is what we’re building today. StoinNet is where I think some of the technology can eventually go. Stoinism is the economic idea underneath it.
These essays explain the why. Start wherever you want.
Useful work today
01Synthetic service02Trusted nodes03StoinNet04Stoinism05UBO
More human freedom
Nine independent entries
One connected founder thesis.
Read straight through or enter at the idea that matters to you. Principles, proposed mechanisms, and horizon hypotheses are labeled for what they are.
- 01
A Richer World Owned by Fewer People
AI may create extraordinary abundance. The question that matters is: who owns it?
4 min read - 02
Better Capitalism
Capitalism's problem isn't that ownership works. It's that too few kinds of contribution qualify for ownership.
4 min read - 03
Everyone Gets a Tranche
A Stoin is a container for value. A tranche determines how you participate in it.
4 min read - 04
Who Actually Runs a Stoin Company?
Distributed ownership without distributed governance can still produce concentrated power.
3 min read - 05
Scan This Box. You Now Own Part of the Company.
What happens when customers stop being the end of the value chain and start entering the cap table?
3 min read - 06
What If Money Is the Inefficient Part?
Money is a brilliant protocol for exchanging value. But perhaps it shouldn't be the only one.
4 min read - 07
Your AI Should Be One of Your Assets
The future of AI should be billions of humans making their own intelligences more valuable.
4 min read - 08
StoinNet: An Internet of Owners
The first internet connected computers. The next one may connect sovereign humans and their synthetics.
4 min read - 09
How We Get There From Here
You don't build a new economic system by launching a token. You build something useful first.
5 min read
Read the ideas at the right altitude
The principle is firm. The mechanisms are still being built.
Tranches, DAOs, claims
Examples to test—not a final economic or legal rulebook.
StoinNet
A future network of sovereign humans, synthetics, provenance, and value.
The vision is ambitious. The first work is practical.
You do not need to adopt the whole thesis to work with Stoin. Bring us one business problem worth solving.
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