Most platforms have a founding year. Liana Banyan has a founding epoch: 1989 to now. Jonathan Jones began working on the economic architecture that would become this platform when he was sixteen years old. This is what 37 years of unbroken focus looks like.
Galaxy Quest’s most famous line — ‘By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged’ — gets repurposed as the cooperative motto for the moment a member realizes how much they’ve saved by switching to cooperative economics. A comedy. A truth.
An accounting student asked Jonathan why he was still working on a platform that hadn’t launched yet when he’d already accomplished so much. His answer: ‘I already won everything else. This is the only thing left that matters.’
Grandmother kept a jelly jar on the kitchen table. Every week, something went in. Nothing came out unless the family voted. That was the first cooperative ledger Jonathan ever saw.
Placeholder — Founder to provide the La Ma restaurant story. A pitch-class artifact about a specific restaurant that embodies cooperative economics. This stub will be replaced once the source story is provided.