I run a composting pickup service in Detroit. My drivers aren't gig workers — they're co-op members. The routes we've built, the trust we'd earned with the households we serve, the reputation we create — that belongs to the ones who do the work, not a platform that can zero it out tomorrow.

I'm also building the infrastructure underneath it. Sovereign identity.

Work history that can't be erased. Payments that go directly between people. Local AI that doesn't phone home.

I don't think we can change the world from the top down. I want the people I'm eye to eye with to have ground under their feet that nobody can pull out. It's happened to me too many times.

Your grandmother blooming is exactly the metric I'm building toward.