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Nearly every incorporation law allows the corporation to have a specific purpose, rather than "any lawful activity". Incorporate for the purpose of providing food rations sufficient to prevent all malnutrition diseases to all shareholders. Then trade shares for labor which supports the food production.

If your company grows large enough, the people most worried about starvation can literally work for food, using industrial capital rather than subsistence tools.

That's probably as close as one person can get to "structuring civilization" without spending at least $10M on politics, lobbying, and capital investment.



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