The ideas
Standing on the shoulders of giants.
Huntos did not come from nowhere. For more than two centuries, great minds have argued that every person deserves a share of the wealth we create together. These are the works that shape Huntos. Read them, and judge for yourself.
These authors and institutions are not affiliated with Huntos and have not endorsed it. We list their work because it shaped our thinking.
Every person has been priced
The founding observation: the value people create is taken and sold by others.
Shoshana Zuboff, Harvard Business School
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
PublicAffairs, 2019
Human experience is claimed as free raw material, turned into behavioural data and sold for others’ profit.
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You have always been the product.
Imanol Arrieta-Ibarra, Leonard Goff, Diego Jiménez-Hernández, Jaron Lanier and E. Glen Weyl
Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving beyond “Free”
American Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings, 2018
The data people produce is a form of work, and people should share in the value it creates rather than give it away.
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Your value belongs to you.
Jaron Lanier and E. Glen Weyl
A Blueprint for a Better Digital Society
Harvard Business Review, 2018
“Data dignity”: people should have a stake in the value they generate — and bargain for it together, not alone.
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Together, the shareholders are the asset.
Everyone an owner
For more than two centuries, great minds have argued that every person deserves a share of the wealth we create together.
Thomas Paine
Agrarian Justice
1797 — full text at the US Social Security Administration
Every person is owed a share of the common inheritance, paid to everyone, rich or poor, as a right — not as charity.
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One share for every person, by right of being born.
Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler
The Capitalist Manifesto
1958 — The Kelso Institute
As capital does more of the work, ownership of capital must spread to every household.
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Capitalism’s engine, with the ownership given to everyone.
John E. Roemer, Yale University
A Future for Socialism
Harvard University Press, 1994
Give every adult an equal endowment of shares in the economy that cannot be sold for cash, so profits are shared equally inside a market economy.
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One share each, the same for everyone — and it can’t be sold.
James E. Meade, Nobel laureate in economics
Agathotopia: The Economics of Partnership
1989 — Nobel Prize profile
A social dividend paid to every citizen from capital owned in common, alongside a free market.
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Capitalism’s engine. Socialism’s heart.
Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman and Douglas L. Kruse — Rutgers and Harvard
The Citizen’s Share
Yale University Press, 2013
America’s founders believed every citizen should own a stake in productive capital; broad ownership raises loyalty, productivity and innovation.
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A share for every citizen of the world.
Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University
Who owns the robots rules the world
IZA World of Labor, 2015
As machines do more of the work, who owns capital decides who benefits.
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Ownership spread to everyone, before the future is decided for us.
Anthony B. Atkinson, Oxford and the London School of Economics
Inequality: What Can Be Done?
Harvard University Press, 2015
Every young adult should receive a capital endowment — a minimum inheritance for all.
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Your share is your inheritance as a human being.
Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics
Capital and Ideology
Harvard University Press, 2020
A universal capital endowment, so that ownership circulates through the whole population instead of concentrating at the top.
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Ownership for everyone, not only for those who already have it.
Peter Barnes
With Liberty and Dividends for All
Berrett-Koehler, 2014
All persons have a right to income from wealth we inherit or create together — “one person, one share.”
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One person, one share.
Dividends that reach everyone
Sharing wealth with everyone is not only an idea. It has been done, and studied.
State of Alaska
The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend
Paid every year since 1982
Every eligible resident receives a yearly dividend from a fund held in common.
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Proof that a dividend for everyone can work for decades.
Damon Jones, University of Chicago, and Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania
The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022
Alaska’s universal dividend did not reduce employment overall; part-time work increased.
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Shared wealth does not make people stop working.
Abhijit Banerjee (MIT, Nobel laureate), Michael Faye, Alan Krueger, Paul Niehaus and Tavneet Suri
Universal Basic Income: Short-Term Results from a Long-Term Experiment in Kenya
J-PAL working paper, 2023
A long-term guaranteed income led to more businesses and higher revenues, as people moved from wage work towards working for themselves.
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Give people security and they build. That is why shareholders pitch to Huntos.
Norges Bank Investment Management
Government Pension Fund Global
Norway
One of the largest funds on earth, built from a nation’s shared wealth and managed for the benefit of all its people.
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What a nation has done for its people, Huntos sets out to do for the world.
Cooperation and the commons
People, organised together, can do what neither markets nor states do alone.
Elinor Ostrom, Nobel laureate in economics
Governing the Commons
Cambridge University Press, 1990
Ordinary people can manage shared resources well together, without top-down control or privatisation.
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Out of many, one.
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize
Grameen Bank
Nobel Peace Prize, 2006
People shut out of the financial system are creditworthy, capable and entrepreneurial — given the chance.
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Every person is capable of building something great.
Mariana Mazzucato, University College London
The Value of Everything
2018
Distinguish the people who create value from those who merely extract it.
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The value comes home to the people who create it.
Permission to dream
These voices dared to dream out loud — and asked the world to dream with them.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
1967 — Stanford University, King Institute
A call to abolish poverty and to share the abundance of a nation with every person in it.
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We rise together.
Rutger Bregman
Utopia for Realists
2017
Progress begins with the courage to dream of a better world — and to say it out loud.
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Here, you have permission to dream big again.
This is the light we carry forward.
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