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Talks you can give about Kelso’s ideas.
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Start here · 17 slides
Who should own the machines?
An introduction to Kelso’s ideas for any audience, with the ownership diagrams, the comparison table and how an ESOP works.
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Short talk · 11 slides
Why Owner-Workers Are Winners
Built on the Kelsos’ 1989 New York Times op-ed: two ways to earn a living, and why most people only have one.
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Why it matters now · 13 slides
Are Machines Supposed to Make Work?
The 1965 case about automation that reads as if it were written for the age of AI.
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The origin story · 20 slides
Why I Invented the ESOP LBO
Kelso’s own story, from a teenager’s questions about the Great Depression to the first ESOP.
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The deep dive · 16 slides
What Louis Kelso Knew
Patricia Hetter Kelso’s essay on the one big idea, with the hedgehog and the fox.
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