The BEcompany: Rethinking the Enterprise
An economy for people – not for markets
Companies are brilliant inventions. They provide what we need to live. They develop ideas, create jobs, enable innovation. But investors milk them like cash cows.
It’s time to shift direction: from being playthings of speculators to becoming ecosystems for the common good and the future.
Enterprises: What exactly goes wrong?
Companies are meant to solve problems — yet today they often create new ones: artificial needs, resource waste, marketing instead of meaning, products designed for short lifespans.
The system rewards profits, not impact. That’s why dividends outweigh societal contribution. But why, actually? What goes wrong in capitalism — you can read that here.
The BEcompany – Enterprises Without Owners
The BEcompany represents the counter-model. A company that belongs to no one, yet functions stably — perhaps even because of that.
Profits don’t flow into private pockets but to employees and into future investments. Decisions aren’t made in executive suites under return-on-investment pressure, but democratically, by stakeholders who represent society. This isn’t a utopian leap — real-world precedents already exist.
What This New System Design Makes Possible
…not better managers. And not moral appeals either. But structures that reward actions taken in the interest of people — instead of in the interest of capital markets. An economy that builds the future instead of burning it. A corporate form that strengthens responsibility instead of chasing returns. And a society that no longer watches from the sidelines, but actively co-creates.
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