A Community is More Powerful than any Business

If you see a large group of people working together and making a profit in America, they’re probably a business. 

In business, bosses order people around and make decisions for those with less power.

In business, power dynamics exist that are incompatible with community.

Incubator is not intended to a normal business

We’ll be a community of equals who makes decisions democratically. 

And to prevent an individual or group from having too much power, all power will be temporary. 

Right now, we have just one committee: Incubator Committee. It has 6 randomly chosen people taken from Incubator’s mailing list who meet monthly to blind vote on important decisions for Incubator.  

In a business, there is the ownership class and working class. Their interests are opposed.

• The workers want to make as much money as possible working as little as possible
• The owners want to pay the workers as little money as possible while having them work as much as possible. 

They want the opposite things.

At Incubator, we all want the same thing because our interests our tied together through a shared ownership model. 

If we do this right, the entire workforce of Incubator will feel ownership over their work. And that’s what makes a community more powerful than any business.