Yet the resources—the money, the power, the decision-making authority—remain locked in outdated structures, flowing through gatekeepers who were never meant to decide the future for all of us.
It’s time to free the money.
Money was never meant to be trapped. It was meant to circulate, to fuel creativity, to be a tool for life-affirming change. But our current systems hoard it, turning it into a weapon of control rather than an agent of possibility. Philanthropy drips it out in ways that maintain power dynamics. Venture capital demands returns that reinforce extractive models. Government funding is wrapped in bureaucracy that slows down the very people who are moving at the speed of innovation.
Meanwhile, the real solutions—those emerging from the grassroots, from communities who deeply understand the problems and are already building new ways forward—go unfunded, unsupported, unseen.
Imagine a world where resources move with ease to where they are needed most. Where we trust the people doing the work, instead of forcing them to prove their worth through endless applications and performative metrics. Where capital isn’t a prize for those who fit into old models, but a tool for those reimagining the future.
What if we stopped evaluating ideas through the lens of "scalability" and instead asked: Is this regenerating life? Is this strengthening community? Is this shifting power?
What if, instead of asking people to conform to existing structures, we invested in the structures that align with the world we actually want to create?
This is a call to thought leaders, wealth holders, and grassroots organizers alike: Let’s rewrite the rules together.
All over the world, communities are designing new economic models, new governance structures, new ways of relating to each other. Mutual aid networks, community-owned enterprises, participatory budgeting, regenerative finance—these are not fringe ideas. They are the blueprint for a different world.
But these movements are underfunded. And we don’t have time to wait for the existing systems to wake up and change. We must move the money now.
This is not a radical idea—it is the most natural thing in the world. We are simply returning resources to their rightful flow, back into the hands of those who are actively healing, creating, and reimagining.