At some point along the way, I’m not sure exactly what made me think of it, I had the revelation that the very creation of businesses is a centralized necessity

At some point along the way, I’m not sure exactly what made me think of it, I had the revelation that the very creation of businesses is a centralized necessity… and, just like anything else it can be improved, refined and perfected. Congratulations. You've just explained the vision behind http://fairsoftware.net http://fairsoftware.net You skip over some issues with the implementation: - anyone can join: in our experience, founders are quite paranoid with their ideas, so they'd definitely not let everyone have access - how to determine who owns what: that's a major problem and I don't understand how you plan to address that. The way we solved it is to copy the way normal startups operate. The initial founders decide on a split, and then keep deciding on more stock issuance as time passes. Call it the manual method. What else do you have in mind?