Enough for All

A Manifesto for Community Wealth, Wellbeing, and the End of Extractive Economics

In the face of cascading collapse, we choose regeneration over extraction.

In the ruins of a dying economy, we plant the seeds of collective sufficiency.

I. The Problem: Growth Devours the Future

We live under an economic system that:

• Extracts from the Earth faster than it can regenerate.

• Concentrates wealth and decision-making into fewer and fewer hands.

• Treats care, culture, and community as invisible externalities.

• Ignores that endless growth on a finite planet is a contradiction with consequences.

This system has given rise to a meta-crisis: a converging spiral of ecological degradation, mental illness, social alienation, institutional mistrust, and civilizational precarity.

What we need is not just a new policy, but a new purpose.

II. The Reorientation: From GDP to Thriving

The Wellbeing Economy redefines value:

• Not in terms of output, but in terms of health, meaning, and belonging.

• Not in extraction, but in reciprocity.

• Not in private accumulation, but in community wealth, the shared foundations of a dignified life.

This economy begins with a core question:

What does it take for everyone, and the ecosystems we depend on, to truly thrive?

III. The Foundation: Community Wealth

Community wealth is not charity and it is not dependence.

It is the collective power to meet our shared needs, without having to ask permission from distant markets or institutions.

It is built through:

• Shared ownership of land, housing, energy, and technology.

• Democratic governance of resources and decisions.

• Local production rooted in global solidarity.

• Ecological regeneration rather than depletion.

• Care infrastructures that sustain bodies, families, and futures.

Community wealth means resilience at the root, so we are not left vulnerable when systems fail.

IV. The Ethos: Enough for All, Not More for the Few

The wellbeing economy is grounded in sufficiency, not scarcity.

It rejects the engineered insecurity of capitalism, the idea that we must earn the right to live.

We affirm:

• Everyone deserves secure access to the means of life: food, shelter, health, connection.

• Work should be purposeful, not coerced, and distributed justly.

• Wealth is not what we hoard, but what we weave: in relationships, capacities, trust, and time.

V. The Method: Build From the Ground, Connect Across

We do not wait for the state or the market to save us.

We organize, federate, and prototype alternatives, locally and globally.

We build:

• Cooperatives and mutual aid networks

• Community land and housing trusts

• Publicly owned renewables and open technology

• Local food systems, repair economies, and time banks

• Shared governance platforms, citizen assemblies, and forums for deep democracy

We connect across borders, but stay rooted in place. We respect Indigenous lifeways and steward our bioregions as sacred commons.

VI. The Cultural Shift: From Separation to Relation

Solving the meta-crisis is not just technical.

It requires reweaving the fabric of meaning.

We commit to:

• Replacing competition with cooperation

• Replacing efficiency with care

• Replacing domination with interdependence

• Replacing the myth of the isolated individual with the truth of entangled life

A thriving world is not made of isolated winners. It is made of relationships that endure.

VII. The Call: From Crisis to Coordination

This is a time of rupture. But within it lies the chance for metamorphosis.

We call on:

• Movements to align around shared infrastructure for resilience.

• Governments to shift from controlling markets to serving life.

• Institutions to fund, not extract from, the margins where new worlds are growing.

• Citizens to reclaim economic imagination and build where they stand.

Coordination is our only real superpower. Let us use it not to dominate, but to transform.

VIII. The Pledge

We pledge to:

• Build institutions that are transparent, participatory, and accountable.

• Invest in the commons, not in speculation.

• Hold power with care, and distribute it with humility.

• Resist systems that feed on harm, and regenerate the systems that nourish life.

We are not here to reform collapse. We are here to remember the future, and reclaim it together.

This is a manifesto for the world we must grow now, rooted in community, guided by wellbeing, and scaled through solidarity.

Let’s make wealth something no one can own but everyone can share.