Extreme private wealth is not only about personal prosperity. At billionaire scale, it becomes power over institutions, technology, work and democratic life. No Billionaires by 2050 confronts that concentration of power, the inheritance of economic rule and corporate autocracy — so democracy can remain credible in the century ahead.
Extreme private wealth is not only about personal prosperity. At billionaire scale, it becomes power over institutions, technology and democratic life.
Extreme private wealth is not only about personal prosperity. At billionaire scale, it becomes power over institutions, technology, work and democratic life. No Billionaires by 2050 confronts that concentration of power, the inheritance of economic rule and corporate autocracy — so democracy can remain credible in the century ahead.
Join WE.THE DEMOCRATIC QUESTION.
Can democracy survive when extreme private wealth, inherited power and corporate autocracy push ever more of economic and social life beyond meaningful democratic control?
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Birth still determines access to wealth, security, education and influence on a scale that democratic societies should not accept. When vast fortunes pass intact from one generation to the next, private advantage becomes inherited rule. End the Birth Lottery confronts dynastic wealth and the political power it reproduces — so opportunity, voice and democratic standing are not assigned at birth.
Birth still determines access to wealth, security, education and influence on a scale that democratic societies should not accept.
Birth still determines access to wealth, security, education and influence on a scale that democratic societies should not accept. When vast fortunes pass intact from one generation to the next, private advantage becomes inherited rule. End the Birth Lottery confronts dynastic wealth and the political power it reproduces — so opportunity, voice and democratic standing are not assigned at birth.
Join WE.THE DEMOCRATIC LIMIT
MAXIMUM LIFETIME INHERITANCE BY 2050
Democracy gives citizens a voice in how their country is governed. Yet when most people enter the company they work for, that democratic principle largely disappears. Decisions about time, pay, technology, surveillance, security, organisation and the future of the business are made from the top down, while those who live with the consequences have little meaningful power over them. We accept as normal that people live as citizens in a democracy and work as subjects inside an autocracy. No Corporate Autocracy challenges that contradiction by bringing democratic rights, accountability and shared power into the workplace — so economic life is governed by the same democratic principles we claim for public life.
Democracy gives citizens a voice in how their country is governed. Yet when most people enter the company they work for, that democratic principle largely disappears.
Democracy gives citizens a voice in how their country is governed. Yet when most people enter the company they work for, that democratic principle largely disappears. Decisions about time, pay, technology, surveillance, security, organisation and the future of the business are made from the top down, while those who live with the consequences have little meaningful power over them. We accept as normal that people live as citizens in a democracy and work as subjects inside an autocracy. No Corporate Autocracy challenges that contradiction by bringing democratic rights, accountability and shared power into the workplace — so economic life is governed by the same democratic principles we claim for public life.
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MAXIMUM PRIVATE WEALTH BY 2050
THE DEMOCRATIC RULE
HELD BY THE WORKFORCE BY 2050
