Students for Abundance at Berkeley

Our country doesn't have enough of the things we need to build a good life.Let's change that.

For too long, our generation has been told to settle for less: fewer homes, slower transit, higher bills, a broken healthcare system, and a government that can’t keep up. The basic goods and services we need to build a good life are increasingly out of reach, and the problem is getting worse.

We believe in Abundance — not just as material plenty, but as a moral vision for a society where everyone has stability, opportunity, and dignity. Abundance means removing the political, institutional, and cultural barriers that keep supply low, costs high, and progress slow. It means designing institutions to deliver material progress and to support the full American Dream: prosperity, mobility, agency, and meaning for all.

To that end, we support the following goals:Fighting Entrenched Interests: In nearly every part of life we care about, the rules are written to keep supply down and prices up. When demand rises, costs soar for regular people while a select few benefit. We challenge interests that profit from scarcity.Renewing Failing Institutions: From housing to high-speed rail, clean energy to scientific breakthroughs, we need our government to make big things happen. But our government is stuck in another century. Outdated systems, red tape, and broken processes drag good projects for years or kill them outright. Today, our government struggles to deliver even the basics, and we rarely feel the results of its work in our daily lives. A nation that cannot govern cannot lead.Reversing Stalled Progress: America once made the future. But in recent decades, our pace of progress has slowed. We failed to scale transformative technologies like nuclear energy, high-speed travel, and life-saving medicines. Invention has given way to incrementalism, and bold visions die in committee. The great challenges of the 21st century, from climate change to curing disease to ending poverty, demand the same ambition that once sent us to the moon.Young people have a critical role to play in accomplishing those goals. Our generation is responsible for shaping our future, not just inheriting the status quo.