What if... everybody who wasn’t one of the 1% just worked together?

We’re building a global community for the 7B+ people who make up the bottom 90% - where we can actively build tech, companies, organizations and systems that aggressively helps us all generate new revenue and wealth, both collectively and individually - by leveraging our biggest super-power - our sheer size and numbers.

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SHORT VERSION (OF OUR MISSION)

Since the 1990s a massive amount of wealth ($79 trillion) has been transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 10% of the wealthiest people on earth.

Gee - what could have caused and started all that?

Spoiler: The Internet/World Wide Web

The Internet is the most concentrated aggregator of demand, behavior and commerce the world has ever seen. It’s been used to aggregate and harvest wealth from the bottom 90%, so we can certainly use it to harvest and generate wealth for us too.

We just have to realize that our world glamorizes the individuals with concentrated amounts of wealth, when combined we have a formidable amount of wealth ourselves.

Most people in the bottom 90% simply feel like they don’t have enough money to make a difference or invest in anything - and they’re right - IF it’s just their money by itself.

The bottom half of the top 10% have been aggressively pooling their money in LPs (ie. Limited Partnerships) to try to keep up with the top 5%, which proves working together is possible, necessary and works.

They already gave us the blueprint - and if we combine that with what the elite do, the rest is just making the conscious decision to actually do it, throwing up an online platform to kick it off - and starting it.

We just have to do it on a more micro, fractional scale - because most people in the bottom 90% aren’t sitting on a bunch of cash. But, even if just 10% of the bottom 90% (ie. around 300M people*) pooled their money together - around some sort of platform to keep it legal and only contributed $5/mo it would dwarf what LPs are doing.

It would be $1.5B per month in deployable capital.
* And, the 300M comes from the fact that there are really only about 3B of earth’s 8B people who are "on" the internet (ie. have access). So, 10% of that 3B = 300M.

And, if we didn’t have faith that regular people would do it... there are 600M+ Entrepreneurs and 400M+ Small Businesses in the world - 99% of which are 1-person operations. They also already make up (ie. create) 50% of the jobs and economy in both the US and the world.

1. Are you part of the bottom 90%?

Every second the wealth inequality across the entire globe is growing because that’s how Capitalism has evolved to work. Need a real-time visual? Check this out. That’s how wealth grows for the top 1% (actually the top 10% too). Especially because the stock market and other industries (like real estate, logistics and shipping) and other financial instruments are the very tools they use to grow wealth like that.

And, did you notice the "Average American’s" earnings per second/minute at the bottom of that list? Note: It’s not completely "up-to-date" and real-time (per say), but it is real-time as of when those billionaires’ net worths were last updated in our system. And, that’s how they all make money - every second - even when they’re sleep.

ps - Also - Public Owned isn’t just for Americans, it’s for the bottom 90% everywhere globally. We use the US for references because it’s all super obvious here.


To be very specific - the power of whatever money and/or assets (ie. home, car, stocks, etc) you have are decreasing every second - because theirs’ is increasing every second.

2. The top 10% own/control 90% of the stock market & possess 71% to 85% of all wealth

The top 10% also control 90% of the stock market - aaaaand if you connect all the dots even a little bit, those conglomerates also own enough of other non-publicly traded companies and businesses (around the world) that they can easily dictate costs (and prices) across the globe - and hence, inflation. A word that so many people debate and argue about that’s really so, so simple if you look at it from a top-view.

It’s all one of the sweetest tricks and grifts in the history of humanity.

Create a system (ie. the stock market) - around a system (ie. democracy) that you can just subtly increase every year without people really even realizing it - especially those who don’t bother to care about the stock market and then you just magically increase your wealth.

Oh yeah - and also influence enough of politics that wages (this is key) and taxes don’t keep pace - because that would eat into those magically inflated profits. (Note: COL - Cost of Living and States who’ve passed higher minimum wages are left out of this overview because the real drivers of wealth inequality are working fast in spite of those anyway)

3. Wages & Inflation

So, eeeeeeeven if YOU make way more than that - you don’t think that affects you? YOU should be making even more. If the bottom was where it needed to be, then it would most certainly have a ripple effect that shifts everything UP above it too.

A lot of smart people talk about this in terms of the power and/or value of the dollar today vs some time in the past.

So that is variable #1 (Wages) in this quick little how F-ed we all are if we don’t work together FAST lesson.

And, here’s variable #2 (Inflation) - this variable should probably be titled "Subtle, Annual Price Increases", but we wanted to make sure you were paying attention.

You ever notice how every year, all these companies and businesses increase their price - like they are victims of inflation? HERE is the crux of it all...


What kind of companies you ask? Easy. Consumers are everywhere and ya can’t make money off of 'em if ya can’t get the product to 'em or get them to the product.

So, everything involved with Shipping, Logistics, Travel, Containers, Docks, Airports, Freight, Rail, Trucking, Gas, Energy, etc.

4. So, how do we fix this?

Fixing stuff that involves THIS many people and such complex things, such as markets, blah, blah, blah has got to be near impossible because it hasn’t been done yet. And, in fact, in many developed countries and nations the citizens have gotten so comfortable that they’ve taken their eyes off of politics enough that this has all gotten even more broken than it ever was when it all started.

5. We have to get IN the game - and then play it.

The bottom 9% of the top 10% (ie. the 2-9%) are already playing the game. That’s how they’re getting wealthier right now and trying to keep up with the 1%.

Ever heard of LPs? ie. Limited Partnerships.

Oh yeah, that’s what the bottom of the top 10% are doing - ie pooling their money together FAST and aggressively and investing in everything imaginable.

So, that means the bottom 90% can play this game too. And, easily. Heck, the bottom of the top 10% have already laid out part of the blueprint - LPs. Of course, the bottom 90% would have to get more involved in politics too. Why can’t we do some lobbying? Or just get rid of some of the things that make it so easy to rig?

6. We may not even have to get the pitchforks and eat the Billionaires.

Theoretically, the irony of all this is that a little more balance, should (deductively) restore middle classes in developed nations and countries and flourish markets through increased spending (from increased earning) - and hence, make everybody richer - even the 1% - and the 10% - but not JUST the 1% and 10% - everybody in the bottom 90% too - who chooses to participate anyway - because how else would you get the benefits?

Right now Capitalism may not be the biggest problem - with the wealth inequality in the world. The fact that the bottom 90% don’t work together and pool their money the way the top 10% do might be more of the problem. And, also the fact that so many people act like they don’t have to pay attention to the politics that have allowed them to run away with the game.

7. We already have the money.

The media glamorizes individuals, ie. billionaires who have amassed a lot of money, but the bottom 90% has a lot of money too - it’s just spread out more.

Most people just don’t think they have enough money to make a difference and they’re right - by yourself, maybe you don’t. But, combined with others - we sure are making a lot of billionaires richer every second. Think about every dollar you spend in a day - who is eventually flowing up to?

The 400M+ Small Businesses (SMBs) in the world create 50% of the jobs and income, yet keep very little of the wealth. And of the 400M+ SMBs and 600M+ Entrepreneurs, 99% are 1-person entities, ie. Sole Propietors, Consultants, etc.

And, remember - they all have Customers, most of whom are other bottom 90ers. If you got $1 from half the SMBs and a fraction of their Customers every month you could easily have a $1B/month fund.

8. We just have to monetize ourselves, the way the rich have.

If you really take a step back and think about it for a second - it should actually be relatively easy to start monetizing ourselves the way huge tech platforms, corporations, brands and conglomerates have.

We already have all the tools - and heck, we even have a blueprint now. Not to even mention, AI. They’re saying it’s going to take jobs, so let’s figure out the stuff they don’t care about and take those industries and then use AI to help us dominate and create new jobs.

Whenver there’s a massive shift one way, it always creates needs and problems - and opportunities in other directions.


The wealth gap really started to expand at a higher rate several years after the "World Wide Web" really exploded in 1994-1998. Note: The "internet" was made accessible to the public as the "World Wide Web" in 1991, which is when the first website was launched and went live.

It seems like almost nobody really talks about any of this being a key, defining factor, because the internet allowed corporations to deliver value and perceived value - to aggregate money (and profits) in a much more streamlined and concentrated way than was ever previously possible before. Millions of people all in one place. Think about it.

The internet has been and still is being used to harvest wealth from the bottom 90%, so it can absolutely be use to harvest wealth and value for the bottom 90%. That’s how we balance it all out. And, this includes the coming age of AI, which is already well upon us - and robots, which are also right around the corner and pose more than just a fiscal threat, but also a potential physical risk and threat as well.

Simply put, we have to become Owners. We MUST become Owners.

Owners of companies, services and market-share in industries that are essential to businesses, like Logistics, Energy (EV), etc. So we can introduce real competition back to markets and industries that just make up fake reasons to increase their prices by more than the average Cost Of Living every year.

See the more detailed explanation of how it could easily work below...

How It’ll Work

1. The Community brain-storms solutions - and the Think Tank arm builds them.

The Public Owned Collective has a Think Tank arm that isn’t just about thinking and talking. We actively build technology - and some of the most cutting-edge technology on earth - including having access to a $7M+ Portfolio of Tech IP. We are comprised of accomplished group of professionals across lots of different areas, industries and sectors.

But, we want to open things up and invite others to help us "solve" or see how we should solve or address certain things with regards to the wealth inequality and politics.

Our Think Tank philosophy is to build in public, so people everywhere can be involved. And, we have a vision that one day soon, PublicOwned.com (apart from the Public Owned Collective) will list and support companies, businesses and services owned by the general public - meaning people and business owners who are part of the bottom 90%. And, this global directory won’t be just a directory - it’ll also be an exclusive, global, digital Loyalty Card + E-Wallet... all of which we have cutting-edge versions for - that are already designed and built (thanks to contributions from our Founding Team).

But, we don’t want to just list these types of businesses and companies - we want to help them survive, grow and evolve too.

So the word "support" above is very important. There are currently about 600M+ Entrepreneurs and 400M+ Small Businesses in the world - who create 50% of the jobs - both in the US and the world, yet possess only 15% of assets and wealth of the world - a number that’s rapidly declining fast (ie. in the last 5 years, the top 5 richest literally doubled their wealth).

If the bottom 90% wanted to, we could fund an entire initiative that could not only self-fund many of our own ideas and businesses, but that could also make strategic purchases, which would help stabilize and price-control certain entire markets - and industries.

2. We already make billionaires richer every day. If we simply change our collective mindset and strategy, we could easily affect most global markets.

Historically, small groups of boycotters in different cultures around the world have continuously managed to change major systems that impacted their societies. Some statistics say all you really need is about 10% of people to do so.

So, imagine if this type of effort was on a much larger, more focused - yet still casual, easy, passive and not time-intensive scale.

For example, we could probably buy Kroger (or a comparable competitor), who controls a massive market share in the grocery industry for $50B as a collective, then just make it a "public" owned company that is still a for-profit company, but one that is not actively trying to maximize profits for its investors - and instead one that seeks to keep grocery prices competitive.

There are more and more of these types of businesses, companies and even grocery stores popping up all over the world - that are either majority Employee-Owned or Customer-Owned or both. Let’s just make more...

3. The concept of "Fair Markets" and "Fair Competition"

If you introduce one player to the grocery market, who prices things competitively and is owned by customers and members of the general public - what do you think is going to happen to those other grocery conglomerates who willingly and happily inflate their prices too??? They’ll either bring them down to stay competitive or they’ll quickly lose customers and eventually shudder/close.

This is super simple. Rich people are constantly pooling their money together to fractionally buy up assets and obtain more wealth. They aren’t ashamed of working together in this fashion either - so why are we? We aren’t using our most blatant and obvious super power. Our sheer size and numbers.

If just the Entrepreneurs and Business Owners got together (only) - that would be about 1B people globally. Then, if we all put a forgettable $5 into a "pot" every month - we could deploy $5B on a ridiculous amount of things every, single month - including infrastructure that would support our own members - as well as investing in (or buying) smaller, privately owned companies that could strategically provide some sort of benefit to a large number of us - and just funding for ourselves - and our members in general. Now - imagine if we put in a little more than $5/mo.

4. People constantly have $5 - $100 in their pockets and don’t think it can do anything for them - so it usually ends up going right into the "system" that funnels it up to some billionaire.

Combined - it would do something...maybe not immediately for you (but we have a simple idea for that), but if we deploy money/capital in enough places we will all start to see the affects pretty quickly.

5. Sidenote: How to make it impact all of us instantly...

It’s actually simple and something the government ironically regulates in the US quite relentlessly - even though it helped build this nation. Lotteries.

And, since Lotteries are not legal - we could either have a Non-Profit arm that holds the most insane raffles ever - since we could pool together a fund worth billions each month. Or, we could do the most insane Sweepstakes ever heard of. Simple.

So, everybody gets a real chance. Wouldn’t that alone be worth it? On any given day what do any of us really have a "chance" at?

To keep things light and interesting though - we propose coming right out of the gates and simply framing this entire initiative around a simple, voting-based system - where we could all contribute and input on how money should be spent/deployed. But, where we could all also vote on the best ideas, businesses, companies, members and things to fund.

6. We Can All Easily Make This Happen (and our Tech Collective actually already has most of it built and ready to go) - we just want to build up a big enough list to make sure people are ready to go

Currently, the Public Owned Collective’s Think Tank is a global coalition of technologists who create simple, high-end technology + solutions that rival most of the famous websites, apps and technology that people commonly use - and we are retrofitting it all to be free - and decentralized.

This will allow Public Owned members to completely eliminate tons of monthly, recurring fees, as well as expensive one-time services that people tend to pay for to support their businesses, interests, etc.

We must start to own the platforms we use or we’re going to always be making some small group of billionaires disproportionately rich. And, how can those types of people possibly have our best interests at hand?

7. The same way they would tell us, we need to tell them: “It’s not personal, it’s just business.”

Our Founding Team believes in decentralized based strategies, companies, organizations - and doing this whole initiative in a semi-decentralized way.

So, we are hoping to get an initial group large enough together that we can easily help fund and manage all the necessary non-profits, organizations, support and leadership necessary to put a simple US and world-based, organizational framework (for PublicOwned) into place - to help push all the various solutions that Members come up with and vote on live and operational.