Corporations and billionaires hold more and more economic power. Our spending, attention, data, and labor keep it that way. We can stop handing it over.
Economic power comes from ownership: businesses, buildings, land, savings, and skills people pay for. Ownership gives you more control over your income, time, and decisions. It also makes you responsible to customers, employees, and neighbors.
A local owner hires people, sets wages, buys from nearby suppliers, and decides where profit goes. Our towns need more people making those decisions, and fewer made in boardrooms far away.
We are anti-corporate and anti-billionaire. We are pro millionaire. A million dollars spread across many owners, employees, and towns does more good than billions held by a few.
In practice: buy from local businesses, spend less time on platforms that sell your attention, protect your data, pay people well, and reinvest close to home. When a business is stable, help someone else start one.
We are doing this in Rugby, North Dakota, a town of about 2,500. Twelve businesses work together: the lumberyard supplies construction, construction builds housing, and the town supports food, gathering space, accounting, travel, and coaching. We write about what works and what does not.
You can do the same in your own town, at your own scale. Get a free local plan for your business.