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0 pointsrobertlagrant1y ago0 comments

How does this work in practice, though. It's easy to say what you're saying, or go slightly further and say "let's stop optimising for work and start optimising for everything to be free".

What's the actual plan?

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stavros1y ago· 3 in thread

I'd encourage you to Google for some articles on how worker-owned coops stay in business. This isn't a radical new idea that's never been tried.

robertlagrantOP1y ago

Obviously they exist. But they are only certain types of business. How is a company that requires hundreds of millions of dollars before it's profitable supposed to be a co-op? Step by step?

Nevermark1y ago

It would be nice to have a legal framework for companies to increase employee ownership, but be able to do it incrementally with no requirement to go straight to 100%. Or ever.

For instance, even public companies might increase the percentage of employee ownership over time.

But capital needs could still be met, as the public or private non-employee stock class would still exist.

aleph_minus_one1y ago

> How is a company that requires hundreds of millions of dollars before it's profitable supposed to be a co-op?

People and organizations who talk about social welfare (e.g. unions) should put their money where their mouth is, and do the seed investments.

Narhem1y ago

Companies should see employee's as stock. Optimizing for anything else would be short sighted.

kerkeslager1y ago

That's quite the slippery slope argument you've got there.

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