I think the “Mars” books (red mars, blue mars, green mars) proposed an interesting economic idea. In a world where automation and AI allowed physical stuff to

I think the “Mars” books (red mars, blue mars, green mars) proposed an interesting economic idea. In a world where automation and AI allowed physical stuff to be organized and built almost as easy as software, you didn’t really _need_ huge organizations (employee wise) to accomplish goals, so Mars came up with an economic setup that did not allow you to join an organization, unless you got hard equity in it, and the amount of equity you could have had a minimum of 1%. So everyone worked for their own organizations and were incentivized for their success, and organizations couldn’t grow too big (100 people at most). So you had lots of small organizations with well developed interfaces between them, because there were so many of them. And you could still acquire huge wealth, just couldn’t be a monopoly. I mean its just sci-fi thought experiment, but it got me thinking maybe there are better economic systems out there, both equitable and free market based …