Is Selling Shares in Yourself the Way of the Future?
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Go read The Unincorporated Man. This isn't a novel idea; it was explored in a novel published in 2009.
Has the potential to develop into a de facto tontine, and tontines are illegal in some places for good reason.
Tontines are perfectly legal: https://tontine.com/news/tontines-can-a-pension-this-good-be...
This is the first time I had heard of tontines. Thanks.