When I visited the Open Source Ecology farm in Missouri earlier this year, I met an impressive young Canadian named Yoonseo Kang. I wasn’t quite expecting to meet an 18-year-old who would tell me that “the heart of economic democracy is decentralized productive power spread throughout the populace.” Kang had finished high school in Mississauga, Ontario, where he was a member of the robotics club but decided not to go to college, much to the dismay of his parents, especially his father. Instead, young Kang moved to the Factor E Farm in Missouri where he’s been helping build the open…


