The traditional vision of a total revolution in which the old regime is destroyed and utopia is born phoenix-like in its ashes is unhelpful. Rational conservatism advises in favour of the stuttered and experimental socialisation of ownership and services. Socialising health, housing and transport, and dispersing wealth throughout society through progressive stock remuneration for workers and/or a fixed ownership stake in an economy-wide index fund at birth, could lead to the gradual emergence of a qualitatively different kind of society.