Ordinary usage collapses many distinct powers into one word. Unbundled ownership pulls them back apart into at least six:
- Title — who legally owns the asset.
- Control — who makes operational decisions.
- Return — who receives the financial gains.
- Access — who may use the capacity.
- Jurisdiction — who has legitimate authority over its effects.
- Stewardship — what the owner owes the wider ecology given the asset’s systemic importance.
Why it matters at scale
For a chair, the six can stay fused and no one cares. For infrastructure that shapes the possibilities available to millions — compute, energy, robotics, housing, food — keeping them fused turns a claim on returns into a right of sovereignty over who gets to participate. Unbundling lets a society preserve the parts that reward risk and initiative (title, return) while placing limits on the parts that would otherwise strand human capacity (access, jurisdiction, stewardship). See Ownership Under Review.