The Pursuit System

Our Premise

Our premise is simple—anticipate that the movement toward socialism will outpace our government's ability to adapt.

The movement is already underway with states like Washington, California and New York shifting toward socialist policies and pushing the bounds of wealth confiscation. For now individuals can flee such states but the logical progression of socialist policy is the state ownership of the means of production, and the elevation of such policy to the federal level where companies cannot simply move.

We can ill afford to stand by and "see" if socialism takes hold at the federal level.

If you are a wealth holder, the wager before you is simple yet uncertain. The outcome on one hand anticipates the AI and automation revolution will lead to abundance and that new job classes will arise to appease the broad cross section of American labor, and that income may remain the primary means of taxation.

Conversely we can anticipate AI will displace substantial portions of the labor market. Consider the imminent automation of driving occupations alone could shift 5% of our population into joblessness.

How we collectively respond to the challenge could be the largest threat to your personal financial estate in your lifetime.

Core Assertions

We refuse to allow the fate of our nation to chance and an uncertain future. We must be intentional and bring demonstrable solutions to address an arising post-labor economy.

We hold three assertions as key drivers of the immediate need for intentionally crafted and tested solutions:

Income Tax Is Dead

We can infer from the 40% of households not contributing income tax in 2025 (Tax Policy Center) that nearly half our population does not have means to contribute to society meaningfully through labor. The automation of transport, and even marginal declines in cognitive labor participation due to AI will render this system unsustainable.

We must define an alternative means of taxation. As labor is rendered impotent, we have only two paths ahead—tax or confiscation of property and wealth, or taxation on the non-labor means of production. Learn more about tax and distribution →

UBI Does Not Work

Without the ability to change your fate, labor participation collapses, sense of identity collapses, and people fall into helplessness and despair. It's not just a matter of enough money—we need to address the need for social and individual responsibility.

To quote Jordan Peterson: "Men don't need money, they need function."

A core objective is that we restore a feeling of agency and upward mobility ensuring that people have meaning, purpose, and a reason to get up in the morning.

Ambition is not purely innate—it is fueled by the environment that surrounds us and the recognition that opportunity and reward are a means by which to address the deeper fundamental need to differentiate oneself. We need a system that enables equality of opportunity but necessarily requires competition, the pursuit of competency, and the recognition of achievement. The equal distribution of subsistence payments does not enable such mechanisms of ambition.

There has been a decay in our social fabric and the generational contract—the promise that our children will have the opportunity to exceed the standard of living of those before them, that you can live the American dream and that you can raise a family. Purpose comes from putting food on the table for your family. Purpose comes from the struggle of going to work, not getting a check from the government. Purpose comes from being a useful part of society—contributing and being of service to people.

Success is relative and there will always be disparity in the level of outcome, be it fame or affluence. That said, everyone must have the opportunity to achieve more—the pathways to increasing success must be abundant and demonstrably achievable.

None of these objectives is achieved from historic UBI structures.

The Economics of Participation

The most valuable commodity on earth is human energy and attention. In a post-labor economy where labor no longer presents a valued opportunity, participation becomes the highest form of value—both limited and scarce.

There must be new vehicles by which we can achieve differentiated success, a parallel economic system in which to both distribute the proceeds of production and enable the virtuous cycle of re-investment in assets and the associated means of production.

We must first recognize that human time and energy is valuable—it is valuable to families, communities, and nation states. We need connection, we need participation which can take many forms from local library story time to international sporting events. In a post-labor world what we need is a means of rewarding activation as a new economic unit as a parallel alternative to labor.

AI will usher in a new cultural renaissance where everyone has the option to contribute in a collective experience. Participation will be the new economic unit that enables people to achieve, generate disposable income, and obtain ownership in the means of production—stocks, bonds, commodities, property, and more.

For many this would be the realization of a lifelong fantasy: to get paid for sport, craft, or performing art. What a wonderful world this will be.

For detailed calculations on participation reward structures, see our calculated rate schedules.

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