Imagine a world in which Facebook is owned and operated by its users, who vote to decide its policies on content moderation and data collection. Those users—whose photos, videos and other posts give Facebook its value—collectively co-own the platform, and the earliest adopters have seen the value of their stakes appreciate greatly as it has grown in scale. A core team works day-to-day on platform development, but product strategy and resource allocation are decided upon by all. This imagined future sounds radically different from today’s digital world. But it is closer than you might think.

Li Jin on the future of the creator economy | The Economist