Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.

Proud neurodivergent father to one autistic transgender daughter, one heterosexual son, and one gay son.

Advocate of Commons Capitalism a viable economic system to replace capitalism today.

www.commonscapitalism.com

Background: A medieval commons, circa 1200 CE, with serfs, livestock, grain fields, and forest courtesy of Copilot, ChatGPT, or Gemini as the case maybe.

Avatar: AI rendition of my photograph

Olympia, Washington

Website
www.commonscapitalism.com
Email
jdcope@commonscapitalism.com
Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2026-01-03

@BluesHarp @GhostOnTheHalfShell

But I did have a slide rule.

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-26

I just posted a Keynesian critique of Commons Capitalism: a market-facing enterprise model that blocks private capture of surplus (no shareholders/investors) and treats retained profits as a commons for past, present, and future workers.
Read it here: commonscapitalism.com/a-keynes

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-26

• Capitalism without private residual claimants.

A comparison of Commons Capitalism with Ixtlán-style communal enterprise at: commonscapitalism.com/commons-
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Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-26

• A commons can compete.

Ixtlán is a reminder that market discipline and “no private residual claimants” can coexist. Here’s a comparison to Commons Capitalism. commonscapitalism.com/commons-

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Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-26

• “Markets don’t require private residual owners.”

Ixtlán shows a communal commons can run market-facing enterprise without individual residual property claims. This commentary compares that logic to Commons Capitalism. commonscapitalism.com/commons-

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Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-24

redistribution, and (2) reduces the concentration of that wealth in the economic elite.

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-24

Commons Capitalism (1) integrates the capitalist principles of profit-making and market competition with the management of net profits as a commons, (a) to equitably distribute business wealth to past, present, and future workers and (b) thereby enrich communities via tiered

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-24

I included several sections: Origin, Introduction, Research, Commentary, Model Forms, and a Forum. Please visit the website and learn about Commons Capitalism.
Commons Capitalism is a viable hybrid economic system that is neither capitalism nor socialism.

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-24

About one year ago, I was asked to create a Wikipedia page about Commons Capitalism, an alternative economic system to capitalism. Instead, I created a website, commonscapitalism.com, using a living document format.

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-24

For curious workers and labor economists ─ read how the Polycentric governance of a CCE combined with worker input from all levels can make a CCE less brittle than a conventional company in an economic downturn at:

commonscapitalism.com/polycent

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-23

For curious workers and labor economists ─ read how the Polycentric governance of a CCE combined with worker input from all levels can make a CCE less brittle than a conventional company in an economic downturn at:

commonscapitalism.com/polycent

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-21

Curious attorneys and economists ─ if you want to see how a commons corporation of a CCE is legally structured, look at the comprehensive list of Articles of Incorporation for a Commons Corporation, complete with texts and comments. The structuring is legal in over 20 states, including California, and is totally different from a capitalist corporation. Go to: commonscapitalism.com/model-fo

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-18

The first Commons Capitalism Entity (CCE) to come into existence will use Old-Fashioned Seller Financing, not charitable gifts or donations─just traditional financing. Read more about financing the first CCE at commonscapitalism.com/paying-d

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-17

Polycentric Governance tends to Outperform Traditional Capitalist Governance. Read how Elinor Ostrom’s rules for governing the commons is combined with polycentricity to create a more effective governance system in a Commons Capital Entity. Go to: commonscapitalism.com/polycent

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-15

Learn how commons capitalism and commons capitalism entities combat worker precarity by increasing wages and benefits in down economies through the payment of worker stipends to compensate for lost time and wages. Read the commentaries at commonscapitalism.com/durable-

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-14

Commons Capitalism reduces the concentration of wealth in the economic elite and distributes that wealth to workers. Read how, at: commonscapitalism.com.

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-12

Under commons capitalism, a commons capitalism entity stewards the earned surplus to distribute premium wages and Nordic-style benefits to past, present and future workers, not to distribute it to shareholders; it has no shareholders. Read about it at commonscapitalism.com/commenta

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-12

People will be blown away when they read, that with a Commons Capitalism Entity, workers can vote to stop major choices that could cost jobs or sell off important company stuff, and where the commons corporation openly shows how much money came in, what it was spent on, what’s left, and where the extra will go—better pay, benefits, and growing the CCE, not outside owners: commonscapitalism.com

Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.commonscapitalism
2025-12-11

Subscribe to my email list at, www.commomscapitalism.com, for updates on Commentaries, Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws with related Comments, and Research pages. I’m updating the website with new Articles of Incorporation with related Comments that manage the commons corporation with polycentric governance, stewardship of the net profits as a commons, and workers having an absolute veto over personnel and property alienation by the corporation.

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