Right now, the economy funds what’s profitable, not what matters. One Project is working to change that.
We build technology, direct resources, and make the case for a better-designed economy.
Common, our platform, is live across 6 regions and 4 languages. Participants have directed hundreds of thousands of dollars toward what they actually need. This is how the economy should work.
The Problem
You get what you incentivize. When nature is more profitable dead than alive, people destroy nature. When food is more profitable laced with sugar, we get a diabetes epidemic. When addiction is more profitable than well-being, kids lose their childhoods to screens. We fund what's profitable and underfund what matters.
Nearly every crisis we face is predictable from the incentives. No amount of traditional philanthropy will fix this.
Change who controls the funding and you change what gets built, what gets rewarded, what gets fixed — every outcome the economy produces. It's time to change the rules.
Our Vision
Imagine a world where money goes to regeneration over destruction, so the air is clean. Where healthy food is abundant. Where everyone's basic needs are secure and AI creates shared prosperity, instead of mass unemployment. This is what you get when the economy funds what the world actually needs, not just what's profitable.
The way you get there is simple: the decisions about how resources and energy move — budgets, land, labor, investment — should be made by the people they affect. This is achievable. It's already happening. It's called economic democracy.