The trick is to overcome the "just one scenario" bug in our brains, that is there to prevent group-fracturing and civil war. This is why we prefer binary worldviews (black/white).

So, you are ready for parallel exploration- now a working capitalism can do that for you, when its not self-sabotaging by becoming monopolistic. There is no real parallel exploration in a big cooperation.

Finally, the last sub-optimal part that has to go, is the attachment to enterprises and humans. What is important is not the company or the CEO, but the technology.

A company can go bust and all you retain as shareholder is the IP - and this can become the foundation of a whole micro-cosmos. Individual Products are nothing, but the capability to produce something within resource reach- is everything.