“A healthy economy is one where money and matter circulate among those who create—without being siphoned off by those who only extract.”
The kOA economy module is not a culture war about “capitalism vs. something else.” It is a structural engineering project: replace rent-seeking friction with civic infrastructure that lowers costs, increases autonomy, and makes cooperation easier than exploitation.
Many people feel “trapped” not because they lack talent, but because basic necessities are expensive, fragile, and full of hidden tolls. When the cost of living is high and options are scarce, the real freedom to say no disappears.
We call that lost freedom exit power: the practical ability to refuse abusive terms (in work, housing, debt, services) because you can actually afford alternatives.
This module focuses on restoring exit power by shifting from:
We don’t start by arguing about redistribution. We start by making essentials cheaper and coordination simpler—so people regain room to breathe.
When housing, food, transport, repairs, and basic services are expensive—and alternatives are fragmented—people can’t easily walk away from bad terms. The result is dependency.
Some extraction is hard to remove top-down. The alternative is to compete with the bottlenecks: offer essential goods and services at a civic price (cost + reinvestment), with no profit extraction.
The only way to sustain civic pricing is to remove the “coordination tax.” Orgo provides offline-capable, role-based task routing and operational memory—so logistics, inventory, and scheduling don’t require layers of costly bureaucracy.
When essentials cost less and local capacity grows, exit power returns. Freedom becomes concrete: the ability to change jobs, leave abusive situations, take time to learn, relocate, or start something new.
We measure success by civic velocity (how effectively value circulates into real capacity):
The Solidarity Network is designed as deployable infrastructure: a repeatable unit (site + tools + roles + workflows) that can be launched, audited, and expanded without losing integrity.
