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{{KidsIntro|Some big companies use clever legal tricks to keep more money and pay less back to the people who actually make things. Reverse Abuse is a WikiDeal idea: use those same legal tricks — but in reverse — so that small producers and farmers keep the money themselves instead.}}

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''Programme-type Innovation — WikiDeal R&D''

| 🟢 Théo Bondolfi

| Prototype 1 — Under R&D study

'''Reverse Abuse''' is a proposed WikiDeal R&D programme that identifies legal mechanisms historically used by large multinationals to optimize financial flows to their own advantage — including aggressive tax optimization, tax havens, and complex holding structures — and then deploys those same '''legal mechanisms''' in the service of small producers, cooperatives, and user-governed supply chains.

Global supply chains — tea, cocoa, garments, electronics — are often governed by financial architectures in which:

Reverse Abuse proposes that the same statutory instruments — holding structures, subsidiary networks, entities incorporated in favourable jurisdictions — can be created and owned by '''small producers themselves''' (or by their cooperatives, syndicates, compensation funds, and user-governed platforms).

The result is a supply chain in which the producers '''sell to a company they own''' — meaning the margin that would have gone to an extractive intermediary remains inside the producer community.

Reverse Abuse is conceived as a '''transition mechanism''' — not a permanent parallel economy, but a structured pathway toward producer sovereignty. Its logic operates on two levels simultaneously:

This mirrors the WikiDeal [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Deprivatization|Deprivatization]] logic applied to global supply chains: the goal is not confrontation but migration — redirecting participation away from extractive structures and toward community-controlled ones.

* [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Exit To Community|Exit to Community]] — progressive transfer of control to users/producers

* [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Deprivatization|Deprivatization]] — reclaiming extractive markets as user-governed commons

* [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Collaborative Contract Editing|Collaborative Contract Editing]] — contracts versioned and community-validated

* [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:User Groups|User Groups]] — autonomous communities with their own governance

In the Programmes framework, Reverse Abuse would most naturally be explored under the '''Market''' and '''Social''' categories — specifically in contexts where existing supply chains can be progressively migrated to producer-controlled governance.