For enterprise to be inherently distributive of the value it creates, she argues, two design principles are particularly key: rooted membership and stakeholder finance, and together they flip the dominant ownership model on its head.65 Imagine if labour ceased to be the expendable outsider and became, instead, the ultimate insider, rooted in employee-owned firms. Imagine, too, if those enterprises raised finance not by issuing shares to outside investors but by issuing bonds, promising their stakeholder-investors not a slice of ownership but a fair fixed return. No need only to imagine, of
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