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Direct Abundance Predistribution
Entopia² was formed on a simple premise: the technologies to produce the essentials for shared abundance already exist. What’s missing is integration and direct delivery.
Entopia² is an independent California public benefit nonprofit. The conviction behind it: the productive power of AI, robotics, and advanced manufacturing can be pointed directly at homes, energy, and community infrastructure, with the output delivered to families as equity and as places to live, rather than waiting for new wealth to trickle through systems that absorb it.
Two tracks run at once: direct delivery of communities beginning now, and acceleration of the production systems behind them until the benefit requires no subsidy at all.
The people building AI expect everything to change within a decade, or sooner.
So far, the world’s entire answer is a fight over dividing the money afterward.
We predistribute: the benefit is built in at the source, before wealth ever concentrates.
Communities better than anything on the market, delivered now.
Every dollar of subsidy becomes more than a dollar of family equity, on day one.
A coalition forcing AI and robotics integration for the slowest-moving industries on earth: the ones that build homes, energy, and infrastructure.
A subsidy engineered to eliminate itself: value keeps rising, the subsidy keeps falling, iteration after iteration, to zero.
Ultimate outcome delivers maximum abundance directly, with continuous quality elevation after subsidies are long retired.
Hundreds of the most prominent voices alive are calling for a response at exactly this scale, and when we searched the world for it, no one was building it. Our repeated searches of the public record for a program that directly produces and delivers what these statements call for, rather than planning the money, have found none. If one exists, we want to meet the people building it.
In their own words, dated and on the record. July 13, 2026: more than two hundred economists and AI researchers, sixteen of them Nobel laureates and several working inside the frontier labs, sign a four-sentence statement warning that AI may drive an economic transformation larger than the Industrial Revolution in a fraction of the time. September 2024: Sam Altman writes that superintelligence may arrive in “a few thousand days.” October 2024: Dario Amodei writes that powerful AI, which he defines as smarter than a Nobel laureate across most fields, could come as early as 2026. And in the largest survey of AI researchers conducted to date, more than 2,700 participants collectively put a one-in-ten chance on AI outperforming humans at most tasks by 2027.
The serious proposals on record: taxing AI wealth (Senator Warren, May 2026), sovereign wealth funds fed by AI revenues (Senator Sanders’s American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act), windfall clauses pledging a share of future profits (the Oxford AI governance world), public equity stakes in the AI companies, and universal income. Every one of them acts on the money, after the wealth exists. The record also shows the leading edge already moving past cash: Sam Altman, who funded the largest basic-income study in American history, said on the record in April 2026 that fixed cash payments do not get at what is really needed. And the June 2026 Global Justice Report from the Piketty, Chancel, and Zucman team, 136 pages on inequality in the AI era, never mentions basic income once; it points to productive assets and directly delivered infrastructure instead.
Predistribution means preventing inequality before it forms, by giving people access to income-generating resources, rather than correcting outcomes with transfers after the fact. The term comes from political scientist Jacob Hacker; researchers Saffron Huang and Sam Manning carried it into the AI debate, arguing that sharing AI’s wealth has to happen before concentration entrenches, and naming housing on their own list of targets for aiming AI development. Our transaction is predistribution in physical form: the benefit arrives as day-one equity in a real asset, built into the deal at the source, held by the household before any new wealth has concentrated anywhere.
The standing objective sheet for every community, in full. Community by community, the objective is to increase: asset value, construction and design quality, energy independence, resilience, durability, environmental performance, infrastructure quality, mobility and access, household equity, and personal autonomy, while simultaneously reducing: production cost, operating cost, energy cost, insurance and resilience exposure, construction time, financing friction, material waste, and eventually the subsidy required to deliver the benefit.
Set a community’s market value at 100 points. All-in delivery cost, land through financing: 90. The household pays 67, on terms comparable to a conventional mortgage. Subsidy covers 23, and it sits inside the 90-point budget, not on top of it. At closing the family owns an asset worth the full 100, holding 33 points of equity on day one. One transaction turns 23 points of subsidy into 33 points of owned value, and the family’s position begins above the 20 percent equity level that mortgage lending treats as a secure down payment, a threshold many households spend a decade trying to reach. The subsidy can be varied, 10 to 23 points depending on the project, for example, for maximum density or value, engineered to shrink as production improves.
The numbers behind the claim. US construction sector labor productivity fell at roughly one percent per year from 1970 to 2020; by 2020, a construction worker produced less than a construction worker did in 1970. Across the same era, labor productivity in the overall US economy rose about 290 percent from 1950 to 2020, manufacturing productivity rose roughly ninefold, and construction ended below its own 1950 level. The stagnation is international: of 29 countries with OECD construction data from 1996 to 2019, 16 recorded negative productivity growth. This is the sector the coalition exists to transform, and it sits directly beneath the largest cost in nearly every household’s life.
The mechanism, not a hope. Repeated delivery generates data, supply chains, experienced teams, refined standards, and factory learning, while the coalition pushes new production capability in from the other side. Each iteration lowers the cost of the next one, so delivery cost descends from 90 points toward 67 and below, the subsidy required shrinks with it, and the equity delivered holds or grows. The quality standard climbs at the same time, because rising quality is half of the program’s definition of abundance. The loop is built to reach zero subsidy as its operating target.
Direct Abundance Distribution: the intentional acceleration and application of AI, automation, robotics, advanced manufacturing, and integrated design to reduce the real cost of producing life’s essentials, with the resulting output, assets, infrastructure, and operating savings distributed directly to households and communities. The arc runs past the moment subsidy reaches zero: cost leaves the equation while the quality standard keeps climbing, with housing first, then energy, mobility, water, and the other essentials of a good life by the same method.
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No consensus, yet, on what. Sixty-five primary sources — every name links to its own statement.
Not an upgrade path, not an option package. Every home delivered meets this standard on the day the family moves in.
Two mechanisms that are usually run separately. Built together, each one pays for the other: performance raises the value of what is delivered, price support puts it within reach, and the demand that follows is what drives the cost of the next one down.
Targeted abundance amid rising awareness of danger
Artificial intelligence, automation, and robotics may create the greatest increase in productive capability in human history. They may enable societies to produce more goods, services, knowledge, infrastructure, and scientific progress with dramatically less human labor.
This possibility is commonly described as abundance.
Yet the same technologies that can create abundance may also undermine the economic system through which most people gain access to it.
In the existing economy, employment performs two essential functions. It organizes production, and it distributes purchasing power. Most people receive income through work and use that income to obtain housing, food, energy, transportation, healthcare, education, and other necessities.
If increasingly capable machines perform a growing share of economically valuable work, companies may reduce labor costs while increasing productivity, profits, and asset values. The initial gains therefore flow disproportionately to the owners of artificial intelligence systems, robotics, intellectual property, compute infrastructure, energy systems, data, and automated production.
Artificial intelligence may make society capable of producing extraordinary abundance while simultaneously weakening the wage, employment, and ownership systems through which most people would gain access to what is produced.
The danger is not limited to unemployment.
Workers are also the consumer population. If labor income declines across the economy, household purchasing power declines with it. Individual companies may benefit from replacing workers, but the economy as a whole cannot function indefinitely without customers able to purchase its output.
A system could therefore become capable of producing more than ever before while leaving a growing share of the population unable to afford what it produces.
The result could be a destabilizing combination of extraordinary productive capacity, concentrated wealth, weakened consumer demand, declining economic security, and increasing political conflict.
This outcome is not inevitable. But avoiding it will require more than conventional redistribution after the damage has occurred. It will require new institutions and new ways of thinking about production, distribution, ownership, technological acceleration, and essential human needs.
An emerging consensus, but solutions remain elusive
Concern about the economic effects of advanced artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from the margins into mainstream economics, technology, politics, labor, and international governance.
Economists, AI researchers, technology executives, political leaders, labor organizations, and international institutions increasingly recognize related possibilities:
Proposed solutions include universal basic income, universal high income, sovereign wealth funds, citizen ownership accounts, worker equity, shorter workweeks, wage insurance, retraining, public ownership of artificial intelligence infrastructure, taxation of AI-related profits and rents, and universal basic services.
These proposals address important parts of the problem.
Universal basic income can maintain purchasing power. Sovereign wealth funds and universal basic capital can broaden ownership. Worker equity can distribute firm-level productivity gains. Shorter working hours can convert productivity into leisure rather than unemployment. Universal basic services can reduce dependence on wages by guaranteeing access to essential needs.
A durable response may eventually require some combination of all these approaches.
However, most current proposals begin after AI and robotics have increased productivity and after the resulting financial gains have begun to concentrate.
The usual sequence is:
Artificial intelligence increases productivity. Companies reduce labor costs. Profits and equity values rise. Wealth becomes concentrated. Government then taxes, acquires, or redistributes a portion of that wealth.
This report identifies an additional mechanism that must begin much earlier.
Abundance must be accelerated, not anticipated.
Artificial intelligence is widely expected to produce abundance over a period of years. That period may be three years, five years, a decade, or longer.
But society cannot assume that abundance will arrive automatically, arrive evenly, or arrive soon enough to prevent severe disruption.
Left to ordinary market incentives, AI will be adopted most rapidly where it produces the quickest private return. In many cases, that means applying it first to tasks, occupations, and industries where labor can be displaced easily.
The benefits may therefore appear first as:
The application of AI acceleration to housing, infrastructure, energy, water, transportation, food systems, and other essential needs may proceed much more slowly.
This creates a dangerous timing mismatch.
The sectors capable of displacing labor may absorb AI rapidly. The sectors capable of reducing the real cost of living may absorb it slowly.
Labor displacement and wealth concentration could therefore accelerate years before AI-driven productivity materially lowers the cost of shelter, energy, mobility, water, or community infrastructure.
Abundance that arrives only after widespread displacement, concentrated ownership, and social destabilization has already occurred arrives too late.
The central task is therefore not simply to distribute abundance once it appears. It is to proactively accelerate the production of socially useful abundance before economic disruption becomes systemic.
The Built-World Absorption Gap.
The report distinguishes between three related curves.
The first is the capability curve. AI, robotics, materials, computation, autonomous systems, and industrial technologies are advancing rapidly.
The second is the disruption curve. Job displacement, wage pressure, ownership concentration, and declining purchasing power may spread quickly through industries that are relatively easy to automate.
The third is the absorption curve. Construction, planning, infrastructure, real estate, utilities, and cities absorb new capabilities much more slowly.
This gap between technological possibility and real-world deployment is one of the central strategic problems of the AI transition.
The Built World is not one industry. It is an interconnected system that includes:
These systems are highly fragmented. They involve long investment cycles, multiple regulatory jurisdictions, complex financing, physical supply chains, local conditions, and many separate organizations.
The difficulty of transforming the Built World is precisely why it must become a priority.
If society waits for market adoption to proceed at its conventional pace, the productive benefits of AI may reach shelter and infrastructure only after its disruptive effects have already spread throughout faster-moving sectors.
The required objective is therefore:
Move the Built-World Absorption Curve forward, steepen it, and bind its productivity gains to direct public benefit.
The accompanying Absorption Curve illustrates this as a staged transition from proving-ground projects, through convergence and mobilization, toward a broad transformation of shelter, settlement, and the larger economy. It also captures the systems-level proposition that an upgrade to homes and communities can propagate outward into city-building and the wider framework of society.
The dates and percentages associated with such a curve should be understood as acceleration targets rather than guaranteed predictions. The essential point is that absorption can be influenced deliberately. It is not a fixed or purely organic process.
Redistribution vs. Direct Abundance Distribution.
Society should not treat artificial intelligence only as a source of profits that may later be taxed or redistributed.
It should also treat advanced productive capability as a resource that can be deliberately directed toward essential human needs.
This report proposes Direct Abundance Distribution:
The intentional acceleration and application of AI, automation, robotics, advanced manufacturing, and integrated design to reduce the real cost of producing life’s essentials, with the resulting output, assets, infrastructure, and operating savings distributed directly to households and communities.
This approach changes the sequence.
Instead of waiting for automation to eliminate jobs, concentrate profits, and generate a political struggle over redistribution, society can accelerate automation in selected sectors where increased productivity would directly improve human well-being and reduce the cost of living.
Public, philanthropic, institutional, and private investment can support the development, integration, and adoption of advanced productive systems.
In return, the output is produced in a form that carries the benefit directly to families and communities. Lower costs, increased output, improved quality, and durable value are built into what is delivered rather than promised alongside it.
The goal is not merely to redistribute the money created by automation.
The goal is to distribute automation’s increased productive capability and useful output.
Direct Abundance Distribution does not replace income support, public wealth funds, universal capital, worker ownership, or universal basic services. It strengthens them by reducing the underlying cost of providing essential goods and services.
A society in which housing, energy, transportation, water, healthcare, education, and other necessities remain extremely expensive will require enormous and permanent cash transfers to maintain broad access.
A society that uses advanced technology to reduce the real cost of those necessities can achieve a higher standard of living with less dependence on wages, debt, or continuing subsidy.
Directed acceleration.
The relevant choice is often described as a choice between accelerating artificial intelligence and slowing it down.
That framing is incomplete.
The more important distinction is between two forms of acceleration.
Uncontrolled, concentration-producing acceleration
Capabilities advance primarily where they produce the fastest private return.
Automation spreads first through activities where labor can be removed most easily. Ownership remains concentrated. Productivity gains are expressed mainly through profits, valuations, and labor savings.
The benefits to shelter, infrastructure, public services, and household security arrive slowly or indirectly.
Directed, benefit-bound acceleration
Capabilities are deliberately pushed into sectors that reduce the real cost of living and expand durable productive capacity.
Investment, procurement, financing, coordination, standards, and modernized permitting accelerate absorption.
The resulting gains are carried into more homes, lower household costs, community infrastructure, resilience, and affordability — built into the form of what is produced rather than promised alongside it.
The relevant choice is therefore not simply acceleration versus restraint.
It is:
Uncontrolled acceleration that concentrates wealth versus directed acceleration that produces and distributes essential abundance.
There is a further reason the uncontrolled path is unstable, and it returns to the problem identified at the outset. Workers are also customers. An economy that removes labor income faster than it lowers the cost of living erodes the demand on which its own profits depend. In that scenario, concentration is not only unjust; it is self-undermining. Directed acceleration does the opposite. By lowering the real cost of essential goods and placing durable assets in households, it preserves and rebuilds the purchasing power that the entire economy — including the owners of advanced productive systems — requires in order to function. The same mechanism that distributes abundance also protects the demand that abundance depends on.
Some AI governance proposals seek to slow general capability development because society lacks adequate systems for controlling or distributing the resulting power. Those safety concerns remain legitimate. Direct Abundance Distribution does not require unrestricted deployment of every frontier capability.
It does, however, change the relationship between capability and public benefit.
Once a credible system exists for converting improved capabilities into broadly distributed homes, energy, infrastructure, mobility, water security, and resilience, faster adoption within that system becomes a stabilizing force.
Each improvement in AI, robotics, materials, autonomous systems, and industrial production can be absorbed into the Built World and converted into additional essential output.
Frontier development may still require safety constraints. But the absorption of available and emerging capabilities into socially essential production should be accelerated as quickly as responsible deployment allows.
The speed of absorption is not incidental.
It is a central measure of whether society can build a countervailing wave of abundance quickly enough to offset disruption elsewhere.
The frontier already exists.
The proposed strategy does not depend entirely on a future invention or a single technological breakthrough.
Many of the required capabilities already exist in fragmented form.
The accompanying Home Planet Federation landscape identifies 264 emerging tools and organizations across 20 categories, including construction robotics, permitting, planning, architecture, materials, preconstruction, project controls, climate resilience, energy, smart-home operations, real-estate development, and underlying AI systems.
The implication is significant:
We are not waiting for one missing technology. We are waiting for integration, deployment, financing, coordination, and scale.
The central challenge is to transform a fragmented landscape of promising technologies into an integrated abundance-producing architecture.
That requires:
The Built World is therefore best understood as an integration challenge.
The opportunity lies not only in developing more powerful tools, but in creating an architecture capable of continuously absorbing the strongest available tools from across the entire frontier.
From universal basic services to universal basic assets, infrastructure, and services.
Universal basic services provide a valuable starting point. They recognize that every person should have reliable access to shelter, healthcare, education, energy, transportation, communications, and other foundations of a secure life.
But guaranteeing access is only part of the challenge.
If these essentials remain expensive, inefficient, fragmented, and scarce, institutions must continually raise enough money to purchase or subsidize them within the existing production system.
This report extends the universal basic services framework into a broader category: Universal Basic Assets, Infrastructure, and Services.
This framework includes three interconnected forms of security.
The distinction matters.
A cash transfer may be spent once. A durable, efficient home can provide shelter, stability, lower energy costs, health, resilience, and household security for decades.
A transportation subsidy can pay for individual trips. A well-designed mobility system can permanently reduce the cost and difficulty of access.
An energy payment can help cover a utility bill. A distributed energy system can reduce or eliminate part of that bill while providing resilience during outages.
The broader objective is therefore not only to guarantee access to expensive systems.
It is to transform those systems so that they become more productive, affordable, resilient, and locally beneficial.
Why housing and construction should come first.
Housing and the Built World provide the strongest first application of this framework.
Housing is usually the largest household expense. It is also a principal source of family wealth, a determinant of health and educational stability, a major component of energy use, and the physical foundation of community life.
A reduction in the real cost of housing can affect nearly every part of a household budget.
Construction is also an unusually strategic sector for early accelerated adoption.
The industry faces persistent skilled-labor shortages, an aging trades workforce, fragmented delivery systems, long project timelines, high material waste, extensive rework, complex permitting, and weak productivity growth.
This creates an important transition window.
In many sectors, rapid automation immediately threatens to replace an existing workforce. In construction, the first effect can be to fill missing capacity, support existing workers, reduce dangerous and physically destructive tasks, shorten timelines, and produce homes that would otherwise remain unbuilt.
Automation will still change occupations and may eventually reduce demand for some forms of labor. Construction is not immune to displacement.
The strategic claim is more precise:
Construction offers a rare opportunity to use AI, automation, and robotics initially as an output-expanding and worker-supporting force in a sector where society already lacks enough productive capacity.
The more rapidly this sector can absorb advanced capabilities, the sooner society can begin producing a compensating stream of real benefits as disruption spreads elsewhere.
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Transforming the complete Built-World process.
The opportunity extends far beyond robotic equipment or prefabricated building components.
AI, automation, and advanced digital systems can improve the entire process through which homes, neighborhoods, infrastructure, and cities are created.
This includes:
The greatest gains will not come from automating one trade or one isolated task.
They will come from integrating the complete process as a coordinated production system.
AI can analyze thousands of development and design alternatives, coordinate complex requirements, identify risks earlier, reduce repetitive work, improve material efficiency, and optimize projects for cost, performance, climate, culture, ecology, and community needs.
Robotics and advanced manufacturing can translate those improvements into physical reality with greater precision, speed, adaptability, and quality.
The Built World must become capable of continually absorbing advances from many separate fields.
An improvement in materials science should rapidly become an improvement in housing performance.
An advance in robotics should rapidly become greater construction capacity.
An advance in AI-assisted engineering should rapidly become lower cost, faster approvals, safer structures, and reduced material use.
An advance in energy systems should rapidly become lower household expenses and greater community resilience.
The required system is therefore not a single construction technology.
It is an adaptive integration architecture.
From shelter to Distributed Abundance Infrastructure.
The result should not simply be a less expensive version of a conventional house.
The result should be a better definition of shelter itself.
A home can be more than a building that protects its occupants from the weather.
It can become:
When these capabilities are coordinated across multiple homes and shared spaces, a neighborhood can integrate energy generation and storage, water harvesting and reuse, food production, mobility, communications, ecological systems, emergency capacity, local manufacturing, maintenance, and community facilities.
This report calls that larger system Distributed Abundance Infrastructure.
Distributed Abundance Infrastructure is the integrated system of homes, energy, water, food, mobility, technology, resilience, and community assets that allows families and neighborhoods to produce, conserve, manage, and directly benefit from a growing share of life’s essential resources.
The word “distributed” is essential.
The purpose is not to create a new form of technological centralization in which households become dependent on a small number of remote platforms.
The purpose is to locate productive capacity, savings, resilience, and decision-making within families, neighborhoods, and communities, while remaining connected to larger regional and national systems.
Distributed Abundance Infrastructure can therefore convert artificial intelligence from a mechanism of upward wealth concentration into a means of building decentralized assets and capabilities.
The Abundance Multiplier.
The framework is designed to create a compounding cycle.
Investment accelerates the adoption of advanced design, manufacturing, automation, and infrastructure systems.
Those systems reduce development costs, material waste, labor requirements, project duration, financing expense, energy demand, and long-term operating costs.
The savings allow more homes and infrastructure to be produced from the same amount of capital.
Greater production volume generates better data, stronger supply chains, more experienced teams, improved standards, more efficient factories, and faster learning.
Those improvements reduce costs further.
Families receive durable assets, lower monthly expenses, stronger balance sheets, and greater resilience. Communities retain more wealth locally and become less vulnerable to centralized system failures.
The resulting stability supports economic demand, social cohesion, and further investment.
This is the Abundance Multiplier:
Investment in productive capability leads to lower costs. Lower costs create more output. Greater output accelerates learning. Learning lowers costs again. The resulting benefits remain embedded within households and communities.
Traditional subsidy frequently pays repeatedly for an expensive product.
The abundance model invests in reducing the underlying cost of production so that every future dollar can purchase more real value.
This is also what makes accelerated absorption so important.
The earlier the cycle begins, the more time it has to compound before displacement and concentration reach their most destabilizing levels.
A two-layer investment model.
Investment alone will not guarantee distributed abundance.
Grants, subsidies, tax incentives, procurement, and low-cost capital could simply help firms automate more quickly while allowing the resulting gains to remain concentrated.
The framework therefore has two inseparable layers: one that accelerates productive capability, and one that determines the form in which its gains are delivered.
The most common way to attempt this is to transfer money and then police how it is used. Money, however, is fungible and reversible. Once it moves, it can move back — spent, captured, and re-concentrated — which is why redistribution has to be defended continuously against recapture.
A benefit delivered as a durable physical good behaves differently. When an essential is produced in a form that lowers the cost of living by its own design — a home that generates and stores its own energy, harvests and reuses its own water, requires little maintenance, and withstands climate shocks — the benefit is a property of the thing itself. A home that produces more energy than it consumes lowers its occupant’s expenses by physics, not by anyone’s continued compliance. The transmission does not have to be enforced, because it is built into what is delivered.
This is the governing move of the second layer: wherever possible, benefit should be carried by the form of the output rather than promised alongside it. The physical characteristics of a well-designed home — efficiency, on-site generation, durability, resilience — transmit their value regardless of who is watching and regardless of tenure.
Some benefits cannot be carried by form alone. The terms on which an asset first reaches a household, the margin taken by its producer, and the protection of long-term operating costs still require agreement. Where structure cannot carry the benefit, a minimal and transparent set of terms applies:
The aim is to keep this list as short as possible by maximizing what the output carries on its own. The more benefit is built into the form of what is produced, the less has to be enforced after the fact.
The governing principle is simple:
Investment — public, philanthropic, institutional, and private — should purchase accelerated productive capability, rapid real-world absorption, and output produced in a form that carries its benefit directly to families and communities.
The framework does not require one ownership model. It can operate through individual ownership, shared equity, community land trusts, cooperatives, nonprofit development, public development corporations, mission-aligned private enterprise, public-private partnerships, and community-owned infrastructure.
The structure can vary.
The distribution of measurable benefit to households and communities cannot.
Choosing the direction and speed of abundance.
Artificial intelligence and robotics may make it possible to produce more with far less human labor.
That transformation can lead toward concentrated ownership, weakened wages, declining demand, social instability, and dependence on centralized systems.
It can also lead toward lower essential costs, durable household assets, resilient communities, distributed infrastructure, greater freedom, and reduced dependence on wages for basic security.
Technology alone will not determine which future emerges.
The outcome will depend on:
The central challenge is therefore not simply to stop or slow forces that are disrupting economic systems, nor to wait passively for abundance to emerge and redistribute its financial proceeds afterward.
It is to accelerate the right forms of abundance soon enough to counteract the disruptive effects of AI elsewhere.
This is not only a matter of fairness. An economy that lowers the cost of living and places durable assets in households also preserves the demand on which all production, including the most advanced, ultimately depends.
Distributed abundance must not be awaited or allowed to trickle upward before being redistributed. It must be proactively produced by accelerating the absorption of AI and physical AI into the systems that determine the real cost and quality of life, and by ensuring that the resulting output reaches families and communities before economic disruption becomes systemic.
The task is to build institutions, productive systems, and communities capable of allowing abundance to arrive already distributed.