> Vision: Promote employee stock ownership for American Mittelstands.
I'm especially interested in this last bit and I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for learning about the different models people have tried for this.
I have what I can only really describe as a hunch or an instinct (not even a theory at this point) that there's something good for people about owning what they help create.
But I keep getting caught in the brass tacks of it. When I've earned small ownership stakes in companies, the only real way that had any direct monetary value to me was if the company had an exit and I stopped being an owner.
Would some sort of dividend or profit-sharing agreement solve this? Are there long-established means of allowing small-scale owners to profit from their ownership that I've just failed to come across?
The accredited investor laws in the U.S. make it such that most working class people can't buy ownership in private companies, but if they could earn it and profit from that ownership, that seems like a much stronger way of "investing in what they know" and potentially seeing outsized returns rather than just investing broadly in the stock market as it goes up.
Middle-sized companies usually pay dividends because that’s how the profit is moved from the business to the owners. Unlike many public companies that focus on stock growth as the main driver behind of providing shareholder value.
I'm especially interested in this last bit and I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for learning about the different models people have tried for this.
I have what I can only really describe as a hunch or an instinct (not even a theory at this point) that there's something good for people about owning what they help create.
But I keep getting caught in the brass tacks of it. When I've earned small ownership stakes in companies, the only real way that had any direct monetary value to me was if the company had an exit and I stopped being an owner.
Would some sort of dividend or profit-sharing agreement solve this? Are there long-established means of allowing small-scale owners to profit from their ownership that I've just failed to come across?
The accredited investor laws in the U.S. make it such that most working class people can't buy ownership in private companies, but if they could earn it and profit from that ownership, that seems like a much stronger way of "investing in what they know" and potentially seeing outsized returns rather than just investing broadly in the stock market as it goes up.