The 99% of Humanity Global Fund
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The 99% of Humanity Global Fund
The simplest version of the idea: 8 billion people each contribute $1 a month. That’s $96 billion a year. Use it to build new global companies or buy the world’s most powerful companies as contributions and dividends flow in. Distribute the profits equally.
The membership starts from birth and relatives can contribute the $1/month on the newborn’s behalf, with dividends accumulating in an escrow account that the member can claim upon reaching adulthood (age of legal majority in their country, typically 18). If the child does not reach adulthood, the funds are returned to whoever contributed them.
A separate donation fund — where people of means can donate — covers contributions for individuals who can’t afford $1/month. As the fund matures and dividends grow, individual dividends become large enough to cover the $1/month contribution automatically, making the donation fund progressively smaller over time. In other words, the donation fund is most needed in the early years of adoption and gradually becomes less necessary as the fund’s profits flow back to citizens.
The real mechanism is more interesting than the simple version, because the fund doesn’t need everyone to join at once to begin. It needs enough people, early enough, to build the first global company or make the first purchase. Everything after that is a snowball.
The adoption math
Cryptocurrency is the most relevant comparison: a financial product with a minimal entry point, global reach, no need for a traditional bank account, and a social community that drove viral adoption across languages and income levels. Crypto grew from roughly 30 million users in 2017 to about 834 million by 2024 — nearly 28 times in 7 years (source: socialcapitalmarkets.net crypto user data, 2024).
The fund has one structural advantage over crypto: zero volatility risk, zero technical complexity, and a guaranteed return once the fund owns profitable companies. It should grow at least as fast. Under a moderate adoption curve:
| Year | Members | Raised / yr | Cumulative* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 100 million | $1.2 billion | ~$1.2 billion |
| Year 2 | 200 million | $2.4 billion | ~$3.6 billion |
| Year 3 | 500 million | $6 billion | ~$10 billion |
| Year 4 | 900 million | $10.8 billion | ~$21 billion |
| Year 5 | 1.5 billion | $18 billion | ~$39 billion |
| Year 10 | 5 billion | $60 billion | ~$266 billion |
* Cumulative member contributions only; excludes profits generated by the fund’s own companies.
The first acquisitions and the snowball
By Year 3, cumulative contributions reach approximately $10 billion — enough to have completed the fund’s first 10-20 acquisitions in essential goods industries. Together, these acquired companies generate billions in annual profit that reinvests into further acquisitions. By Year 5, the fund’s own self-financing growth, driven by the margin trajectory described in Part 2 of this series, exceeds new contribution income as the primary source of expansion capital. The $1 contributions remain the foundation, but the fund’s profits become the engine of its own continued growth.
The fund continues either creating new companies in each industry or acquiring existing ones — and in either case, it operates alongside private competitors rather than displacing them. The fund’s structural advantage is that consumers receive dividends from products they buy from fund-owned companies, so over decades the fund’s market share grows organically. The fund does not become a monopoly; it becomes the largest competitor, owned by everyone.
One industry at a time
The fund does not try to buy everything simultaneously. It enters one industry, stabilizes it, uses its profits to fund the entry into the next, and repeats. Each successful acquisition proves the model and funds the expansion. Each new industry announcement extends the fund’s reach and deepens public trust.
We suggest starting with pharmaceuticals because the public sympathy for lower drug prices creates immediate political support for the fund’s existence. But the choice belongs to the first generation of shareholders.
Tiered contributions, equal votes
Contributors who want to give more than $1/month can but it would be taken as future contributions to the fund made today. But the governance principle never changes: one person, one vote, regardless of contribution level. Financial generosity earns gratitude and speeds up the process. It does not earn a larger voice or larger dividends.
This separation of financial power from democratic power is the architectural rule that prevents the fund from replicating what it is replacing.