One thing all of this *discussion* has exposed is that politics and voting is a fundamental violation of property rights. 

1) Running a company by committee is a bad idea.
2) 99% of voters have no clue as to what is actually in their best interest.
3) It becomes a prisoners dilemma... if everyone cooperates it could work well, but individuals can profit more by defecting.

Conclusion:
 
   It is entirely too risky to consider such a significant shift in premise.   The free-market way to achieve the desired goal is to for someone to launch a new chain, pre-allocating enough to themselves to justify the investment and then growing to compete in the market place.

I have absolutely no idea how you can conclude 1)2)3) from this discussion. Maybe it's just that I'm not a good master of byte as you.