Cooperative Capitalism: Market-Compatible Frameworks for Distributed Ownership, Intergenerational Equity, and Post-Scarcity Economics

Alex Applebee and A. D. Masters

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Author's Note

This paper exists because a woman buried her daughter and then looked at the system that killed her.

Not with a gun. Not with a disease. With architecture. With food regulations that permit substances banned in 140 countries. With a justice system that punishes the people who notice. With an economy that produces enough food for ten billion people while eight hundred million starve — not because there isn't enough, but because someone is making money from the gap.

The fourteen goals that drive the OMXUS project did not emerge from policy workshops or academic retreats. They emerged from grief. From a zookeeper who watched enclosures designed to contain animals and recognised the same architecture containing humans. From an emergency that took fourteen minutes to respond to when sixty seconds would have changed everything.

Those goals are:

Direct democracy — you vote on everything, no representatives.

Twenty-two-hour work week — automation already did the work.

Free all prisoners — Norway proved 20% recidivism versus 77%.

Eradicate courts — replace with direct approach, voucher escalation, town meetings, ViewSwap.

Fire all police, justice, and corrections staff — the CAHOOTS model works.

Re-employ all fired staff in functional positions — nobody loses a livelihood.

Legalise drugs, stock pharmacies cheap — Portugal model, 80% fewer overdose deaths.

Internet costs nothing — you ARE the infrastructure, mesh networking.

No foreign investment in housing — houses are for living in.

Food contains only things proven safe — precautionary principle.

Monkey bars at every bus stop, climbing walls on all stairwells — human bodies climb.