Across Europe and beyond, people feel rising precarity: insecure wages, unaffordable housing, volatile energy costs, strained healthcare systems, and a growing sense that the institutions shaping daily life are no longer oriented toward the long term.

This experience is not imagined. But it also sits alongside something historically unusual.

For the first time, a set of general-purpose technologies — AI, robotics, renewable energy, advanced materials, and digital coordination platforms — make it technically possible to produce essential goods with far less human labour, far greater efficiency, and far lower marginal cost than ever before.

The contradiction of our moment is this: extraordinary productive capability exists, yet the cost of living continues to rise and systems feel increasingly fragile.

Abundance exists to resolve that contradiction.

What Abundance is

Abundance is a long-term effort to build shared public wealth in essential systems.

Not welfare.
Not redistribution.
And not a single organisation.

Abundance is a federation: a growing network of mission-locked cooperatives, digital platforms, and local projects that produce essential goods — food, energy, housing, healthcare tools, AI, robotics, and civic digital infrastructure — as durable public assets.

These assets are governed so that:

• value is reinvested rather than extracted

• costs fall over time rather than rise

• resilience increases as systems grow

• and benefits remain broadly accessible

The aim is not to replace markets or governments, but to rebuild a layer that both increasingly struggle to sustain: long-term, productive capacity held in the public interest.

What broke — and why this approach is different

Over recent decades, two structural shifts have occurred.

First, markets in essential domains have consolidated. Competition weakened, ownership concentrated, and systems were engineered for short-term efficiency rather than durability. Fragmentation and financialisation did not reliably lower costs or improve outcomes; in many cases they increased fragility.

Second, many states lost the confidence and capability to plan and build over long horizons. Long-term infrastructure, research capacity, and productive systems were deferred, outsourced, or treated as risks rather than responsibilities.

The result is an economy that fails to translate innovation into shared, durable security.

Abundance is not a return to past models. It is a corrective adapted to current conditions — one that combines modern technology with structures designed to hold value over decades rather than quarters.

How public wealth is built

Public wealth, as Abundance uses the term, refers to productive systems that continuously lower the cost of essential goods and services over time.

This is made possible by two modern factors.

First, technologies such as software, data, AI models, and robotics accumulate value when shared. They do not degrade with use; they improve. Small contributions of time, expertise, or usage can permanently strengthen systems that remain available to everyone.

Second, cooperative and mission-locked ownership structures make it possible to ensure that efficiency gains flow back to users rather than being extracted.

In practice, this means:

• farms that produce food at cost rather than maximising margin

• energy systems owned by the people who rely on them

• shared data and AI infrastructure that is auditable, reusable, and licensed so that value circulates back into public capacity rather than being permanently enclosed

• digital platforms that coordinate participation without enclosing value

Public wealth raises the floor. It does not eliminate markets or choice; it reduces the baseline cost of living so that security is not something people must continually re-purchase from increasingly concentrated providers.

From expertise to scale

Abundance is deliberately sequenced.

The work begins with domain experts — agronomists, roboticists, AI researchers, economists, cooperative lawyers, community health specialists — identifying narrow, high-leverage problems that are feasible to tackle first.

These become small, real projects:

• early AI and robotics applications in farming, energy, and resource recovery

• data commons and tooling that improve over time

• pilot cooperatives that generate real cash flow

Civic participation — through volunteering, contribution, and everyday use — feeds directly into these systems. Importantly, that effort does not disappear. It accumulates as permanent intelligence and infrastructure.

As productive capacity comes online, surplus is reinvested:

• into better tools

• into new domains

• into replication across regions

Over time, this creates a self-reinforcing loop:
expert judgement → proof → participation → productive capacity → reinvestment.

Scale is not the starting point — but it is the destination.

Inclusion without extraction

Participation in Abundance is not gated by wealth.

Some people contribute financially, gradually building ownership in productive assets, like food or energy co-ops. Others contribute time, expertise, data, or simply choose to use shared tools and platforms that route value back into public goods.

As the ecosystem grows, complementary services — from payments to platforms — can be brought inside the federation when doing so lowers costs and keeps value circulating internally.

This inverts the dominant logic of modern platforms, which aggregate a crowd and extract value. Abundance aggregates participation and reinvests the value generated back into shared capacity.

A direction, not a promise

Abundance does not guarantee outcomes.

What it offers is a direction of travel grounded in buildable systems:

• from private hedges against insecurity, like gold or bitcoin to shared ownership of essential infrastructure like co-op farms

• from rising living costs to cost reduction through productive efficiency

• from brittle, over-optimised systems to resilience designed in from the start

• from constant economic pressure to greater freedom of time and choice

Whether this direction is realised depends on disciplined execution, sound governance, and patience. That is why the work begins narrowly. Why experts lead. Why proofs come before scale.

Public wealth is not imagined into existence.
It is built — slowly at first, then steadily — through systems designed to hold over time.

Where this stands now

Abundance is early — deliberately so — but it is not speculative.

Work underway includes:

• a participation and coordination platform in final testing before initial release

• engineers collaborating on AI and data-infrastructure tooling

• expert advisory processes forming to shape feasibility and sequencing

If you are looking for a finished organisation, this is not it.
If you are interested in helping build something serious, step by step, you are in the right place.