A question became
an economic blueprint.

It began in 2015 with a family that couldn't stop talking about everything going wrong. For years, Remzi Bajrami and his wife, Ardijana, had read, watched, and argued about unstable economics, ecological breakdown, and the systems underneath it all. One evening, in the middle of yet another documentary about yet another crisis, their teenage daughter Adelina walked in and told them to shut up; to stop talking about the problems and seek solutions instead.

That moment shifted the focus of the work. Adelina's interruption moved Remzi from studying what was broken to asking what could be built instead. Before any model, mechanism, or framework could matter, one question had to come first: if we are going to build solutions, what are we building toward? So he asked:

"What kind of world do you want to live in?"

The question that started Common Planet · Spring 2015

That question changed the direction of the work. Resource-based economics and the Venus Project had already shown them another way to think about economics, an economy organized around life and resources instead of debt and profit. What remained unclear was how to get there from here.

At first the answers came in pieces, each one pointing somewhere important, but none yet forming a transition path. Then, in the summer of 2015, the housing idea arrived: a way to rate and guarantee housing, a key piece. With it, the pieces began to fit. For the first time, an economy built on Credit had a destination clear enough to begin designing the path.

That fall, EarthVote.org launched as a public research initiative, while the deeper architecture kept taking shape in private.

Over the next decade, EarthVote became Common Planet. Manifestos became a book. Years of research, drafts, and revisions matured into a working economic framework with a name: Creditism.

In late 2023, Remzi opened the work to others. Over the years he had met people online who cared about the same questions, and he began sharing a co-writing document, slowly and selectively at first, then with more people once the ideas had real substance. Most were curious; only a handful truly built. Eli Capracotta, Avi Volah, and Adam Stallard did the most to push Creditism forward, and Adam's decentralized identity and development protocols became the backbone of AYU. Their work is a large part of why Common Planet Foundation could launch in January 2026.

Today, Common Planet carries the work forward through the nonprofit Common Planet Foundation and the AYU Network, moving from explaining the framework to building the first structures that put it to work, and from one family's question into a project others can now enter, test, fund, and help build.