• Basic needs insecurity (food, housing, healthcare, transportation, sanitation)

• Nutrition-related problems (malnutrition, food addiction, food insecurity)

• Chronic physical health issues (diabetes, hypertension, heart disease)

• Mental health struggles (substance abuse, depression, anxiety, ADHD)

• Work-related strain (injury, burnout, stress, fatigue, overwork)

• Limited opportunities (restricted access to education, jobs, technology, financial services)

• Inequality, discrimination, lack of safety nets, weak support systems

• Financial hardship (transportation, debt, and utilities insecurity)

These are known design flaws in capitalism—this system is destroying us.

Everywhere we look, the costs are mounting—homelessness, repression, ecological collapse, endless wars for profit. This system is not built to last. We the working class, the poor, and the marginalized—and even the privileged—can no longer ignore the consequences.

There are alternatives. From socialism and eco-economics to human-development models and post-scarcity visions, new systems are already being imagined, tested, and built. The question is simple: will we act, or will we let destruction continue?

Scroll down to see the exit strategy from capitalism—a six-phase roadmap for building a global system based on cooperation, fairness, and ecological balance.

An Exit Strategy From Capitalism

Six Phases of Transition

Phase 1 — Recognition

• Awareness of capitalism’s failures spreads globally.

• People align on the need for an alternative.

• Candidate economic models are reviewed, and guiding principles are identified.

• Mass communication — online networks, assemblies, and local meetings — amplifies the call.

Phase 2 — Assessment

• Communities evaluate their ability to withstand crises such as pandemics, climate shocks, or hurricanes. The same skills and systems that help us survive natural disasters — local food, backup energy, neighborhood safety, communication networks — are the ones we need when shutting down capitalism. Preparing for disaster is preparing for transition.

• Local audits of food, housing, healthcare, communications, and safety expose gaps.

• Parallel systems begin forming — cooperatives, clinics, food networks, neighborhood assemblies, defense, power, medicine, and communication.

• Readiness reports establish a baseline for resilience at community and regional levels.
  

Phase 3 — Unionization

• Local systems stabilize and achieve basic sufficiency.

• Communities coordinate across counties, regions, and globally.

• Communication, power, and defense parallel structures are stress tested.

• Awareness peaks; discussion shifts into coordinated global unionization.
  

Phase 4 — Economic Refusal

• Coordinated work slowdowns test and buffer the new systems.

• Rent and debt strikes reduce dependency on financial institutions.

• Surplus goods are redirected into collective depots and distribution systems.

• Parallel networks expand to absorb those leaving capitalist labor markets.
  

Phase 5 — Walkout and Seizure

• Mass withdrawal from wage labor occurs.

• Surplus is seized and redistributed to stabilize communities.

• Shelter-in-place actions simulate autonomy — intentional, coordinated, and collective.

• Current infrastructures such as food, clothing, medicine, housing, education, energy, logistics, communication, and resource acquisition are repurposed for public use.
  
  

Phase 6 — Calibration and Operation

• Communication and resource-tracking systems synchronize at global scale.

• Communities return to productive work under principles of cooperation and sufficiency.

• Education is restructured to sustain the transition:

• Problem-solving and cooperative decision-making

• Ecological management and resource stewardship

• Social coordination, mediation, and conflict resolution

• Education becomes the anchor for cultural continuity, ensuring the new system adapts across generations.
  

These six phases are not rigid steps but a sequence of transitions that can be rehearsed, scaled, and coordinated globally. Moving through recognition, assessment, unionization, refusal, walkout, and calibration, humanity can step beyond capitalism into a system designed for stability, equity, and ecological balance.

This message is for those of us who see the problem, who are looking for a global solution, and who believe one can be found. Many of us who suffer under capitalism, imperialism, and corporate greed can see that this system, this way of life, is failing. Global domination and destruction are now a reality. Humans have the technology and resolve to enslave one another at the expense of the entire planet.

We have to pick a new socio-economic system that works for everyone.

Many newer frameworks such as the Doughnut Economy and the Well-Being Economy and the classic alternatives communism and socialism, have all contributed important ideas. But no single model alone is enough. The Human Development Economy (HDE) was created as a conglomeration of these approaches, combining their strongest principles into one framework.

What results is a practical system designed to meet needs directly. The Human Development Economy organizes all labor through three interconnected systems: Neighborhood Assemblies, Specialist Unions, and Resource Management Collectives. Together, they form a closed-loop structure that ensures survival, safety, belonging, esteem, and self-actualization—without reliance on profit, markets, or centralized authority.

Scroll down to see how the Human Development Economy works, how its three systems operate independently and flow together, and why this model provides a resilient foundation for a just and sustainable future.

How the Human Development Economy Was Created

The HDE is a conglomeration of many economic models. It combines:

• Communism: resources serve everyone
  
  

• Socialism: cooperation and shared responsibility
  
  

• Doughnut Economy: balance between human needs and ecological limits
  
  

• Well-Being Economy: progress measured by health and happiness
  
  

• Mutual Aid traditions and the Commons Economy
  
  

The result is a practical framework that ensures basic needs, belonging, esteem, and growth—without profit, markets, or centralized authority.

Introduction to the Human Development Economy
The HDE is a post-capitalist model that organizes labor around Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. All work flows through three systems:

• Neighborhood Assembly Teams (NATs): identify needs and coordinate care

• Specialist Unions: skilled workers who build, repair, and teach

• Resource Management Unions: stewards of food, water, energy, and materials

How Each System Works

• NATs: Flexible, care-focused, ensure no one is overlooked

• Specialist Unions: Technical and creative backbone, every project doubles as training

• Resource Management Unions: Track, reuse, and protect resources, keeping systems sustainable
  

How They Flow Together

• NATs identify needs

• Specialists respond with skill and training

• Resource Managers provide and recycle materials

This loop—Need → Response → Materials → Feedback → Growth—runs on care, skill, and stewardship instead of profit.

Leadership in the HDE

• Neighborhood Assemblies hold the most influence

• Resource Collectives guide ecological balance

• No authority over individuals: behavior is shaped by mutual aid and restorative justice

• Teachers and restorative justice specialists ensure lifelong learning and conflict repair
  

Call to action

Commit to having this conversation with five different people a day.

The number five was loosely based on Dunbar’s number, which suggests the maximum number of meaningful relationships a person can have is 150. The model is viral growth only instead of doubling each time, the message spreads by powers of five. At this rate it would take 14 exchanges (you tell five friends and they tell five unique friends and so on) for the number of people who hear this message to surpass eight billion - the estimated global population.

If we set the goal of spreading the message using Dunbar’s number, that is, if you tell 150 friends about the plan and they tell 150 unique friends, the number of iterations to reach the global population becomes six. You know everyone on the planet within six contacts (1. you - 2. someone you know - 3. someone they know - 4 - 5 - 6. anyone in the world.) This is exactly how “six degrees of separation” works.

Given that the internet allows any two people the ability to communicate anywhere in the world instantaneously, the number of necessary iterations drops extremely. (I could send this message to someone on the opposite side of the planet who could then disseminate it to their entire neighborhood. If I were to send one message to one person in every known country in the world - 193 plus the Vatican and Palestine - it could spread throughout each country within a matter of minutes. Furthermore, just for illustration, if the Pope were to adopt this plan and mandate it among Catholic followers it would reach 1.5 billion people. From there it would take three iterations to reach the planet.

3. Read and understand how the six phase transition strategy works.

This is a roadmap to exiting imperialist capitalism and entering a new consensus-based socio-economic system.

Imagine your role in the new system and what part you will play in the transition.

Coordinate with your municipal neighborhoods to create plans using the six phases as milestones.

Work your plans into plans from other neighborhoods. Continue organizing until your townships (blocks of 1000 to 20,000 people) have a relatively tight system ready to replace capitalism. Continue expansion to the county level (20,000 to 100,000) until there is a loose county wide system. Then elect representatives to coordinate bioregions until every person on the planet has some part of a global system in mind. Remember, at this stage we are still conducting a thought experiment.

4. Advancing to the next stage

- begin taking real action steps as outlined in the six phase plan.

By the time communities are ready to initiate the first phase, we should have an incipient level of global mass consciousness and awareness of a planetary shift. As groups begin to find the blind spots and flaws in the plan, adaptations can be made and progress can be communicated across bioregions. When a new system is functional and parallel to the current system. In other words, when we can support ourselves across all levels of need, from basic survival to growth and human development, we will be ready to shut down capitalism and step into a new age of global peace.

Read. Share. Organize. Overcome.