Healthcare
Health support should not become less available when illness, disability, or a job change also reduces someone’s income.
Transparency and shared benefit
TheraLab Commons
Useful tools for therapists. A sustainable business. A proposed path toward shared benefit.
Open Commons in MyTheraLabUseful tools first. A sustainable business built around therapists.
TheraLab makes practical tools and resources for occupational therapists. Paid products can cover the costs of building and maintaining that work, compensate the people who do it, and keep the business sustainable. We do not want usefulness to therapists to become secondary to extracting as much value as possible.
TheraLab is privately owned today. The Commons describes a proposed shared-benefit direction for the future; shared ownership, member decision rights, rewards, surplus allocations, and community distributions are not operating today.
Occupations need more than a market price.
Occupational therapy pays attention to the things people need and want to do. Conventional capitalism often makes access to time, housing, care, and health support depend on income, employment, or the ability to pay. That tension matters when participation is the goal.
Housing and community
A stable, accessible home and a connected community make everyday participation possible; neither should be treated only as an investment return.
Food and caregiving
Food, rest, and caring for children, partners, or parents take resources and time. Paid leave and affordable support help people care without losing their livelihood.
Time and participation
Relationships, learning, leisure, and civic life still matter whether someone can work for pay. Predictable hours and living income protect room to participate.
Democratic-socialist ideas offer one useful way to discuss meeting basic needs collectively, strengthening worker voice, and treating essential services as public responsibilities. They are context for this proposal, not a claim that occupational therapy or every TheraLab user shares one political position.
What happens to available surplus?
Both examples first cover operations, fair compensation for work, taxes, reserves, and reinvestment. The comparison is about available surplus—not every dollar of revenue or a promise of a particular return.
Surplus stays under owner discretion
After costs and compensation, the owner decides whether to keep, reinvest, or share the available surplus. Workers and customers have no automatic authority over that decision.
Make room for access, contributors, and community priorities.
- 40% · Affordable access
- Illustrative support for wider access to useful tools.
- 30% · Workers and contributors
- Illustrative benefits beyond ordinary compensation.
- 30% · Community-chosen projects
- An illustrative budget that could be governed with published member rules.
The 40/30/30 example is proposed and illustrative only. It is not a current spending rule, subscription allocation, guarantee, or distribution. Any future allocation, eligibility, funding, and decision rights would need to be finalized and published before taking effect. Sharing money alone is not shared ownership.
Make the financial picture legible.
No Commons financial report has been published. A future report could explain income, costs, compensation, reserves, reinvestment, and any approved community distributions for a stated period. There are no published figures to present as current results.
Participation needs real rules, not a promise.
No ballots are open. Any member input, community budget, or governance process would need published eligibility, timing, authority, and implementation rules before it begins. No ownership transition or voting right is established.
Shared benefits
No rewards, distributions, or member benefits are currently available through the Commons. They would require funding and approved program rules.
You’re welcome here.
Your religion, political affiliation, or agreement with us does not determine whether you are welcome. Use the tools, question the proposal, and tell us what needs fixing. Free access follows the same rules for everyone, and money must not buy extra influence.
What you can do today
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