Capital margins is the idea that you need to be able to set upper and lower limits on your society, on your monetary infrastructure. The idea that any one person or any one corporation could become king of the world because there is no upper limit is a problem. Monopolies have dominated regardless of laws, and there needs to be upper limits to how big something can get — on an individual, business, corporate, and even government level. A state should only be able to get so big. The United States should recognize it has an upper limit itself. The idea that any entity is just going to grow and grow is counter to the universe we live in. In life and biology, things that grow divide.
Capital Margins is a project that examines what an appropriate structure of upper and lower limits for individuals, businesses, and government entities could look like. The idea being that if you're an individual who likes to make money and you hit the upper limit — congratulations, you won. But now you either stop, give it away, or start again fresh. This applies to businesses and monopolies as well.
Some of this connects to the scalability of democracy. It cannot scale infinitely. Maybe it's 100 million people, maybe a billion, but at some point a population becomes unmanageable. You must allow division. You must allow the cell to divide.
Capital Margins was completed in the early 2000s in West Hollywood. Despite personal challenges, I built a presentation and recorded a video explaining the theory. I ran case examples and proposed models — like basic income tied to upper thresholds. A person's lifetime value set at $10 million vs. someone holding billions (hundreds of lives worth). There must be redistribution above that, with basic income as the bottom bound.