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I believe that the solution to this problem lies in a corporate body which shares the revenues or production between Capital providers and Capital users: the "Capital Partnership" as I call it, is enabled by simple new legal forms like the US LLC and UK LLP.
In this model there are no "employees", merely managing and operating "partners". "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson
It's the "chaordic" approach envisaged by Dee Hock when setting up Visa.
Except I envisage (as did he, but the Banks would have none of it) that individuals - as well as intermediaries - would be members of the "chaordic" "partnership of partnerships" or "cooperative of cooperatives" that constitutes the enterprise model that results.
If a managing partner has a pre-agreed share of production or revenues then agency does not come into it. "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson
And they handed out sub-prime and Alt-A mortgages to people with 0% down-payment, no documentation of income, teaser rates or negative amortization. Why could they do it? Because they got rid of the risk.
So they looked only for market share and their commissions. Employees, mortgage brokerages and banks. Worked fine for a time in a booming housing market. Now of course, several mortgage companies have declared bankruptcy. But for years, brokers got their bonuses and I suspect the owners of the bankrupt companies didn´t evolve into paupers either.
I suspect the theory didn´t include the possibility of transferring the risk to others. :)
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