We’re trapped in an era of fatalism, unable to envision alternatives to the models of ownership and funding beyond current extractive defaults. We’ve agreed that innovation can touch every aspect of our lives — except the structures that shape them. This isn’t just a failure of imagination — it’s a feature of those very structures.
Proposals require us to answer difficult questions that protesting alone does not: Who will build it? How will it be funded? How will it compete and self-sustain? What trade-offs are we willing to accept?