Are there any tech co-ops or 100% employee owned companies? Could be a system forward.
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Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t know how to say this but corporations suck. They turn human spirit into profits and excrement. Anything led by a corporation will inevitably suck if it doesn’t right off the bat.
Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m sure there are. But, at least in the states, many tech people are also right-leaning libertarians. Co-ops are unpopular with them because they want to be the kings in the castle, not equal with their peers.
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Co-ops are quite rare in Europe as well. I can’t name a single tech co-op.
In fact I’d say it worse over here. In my experience stock options are a very rare kind of remuneration, whereas as far as I understand it’s common in US Big Tech companies like Google or Apple (though of course non-voting shares are a far cry from actual co-ownership of the company).
On the other hand corporate profits are taxed pretty high in many countries (for the smaller tech companies that aren’t based in Ireland). It’s 30 % here in Belgium IIRC. So at least some of the profits make it back to the people, in a more general sense.
Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Makes sense I guess. Thanks for elaborating.
moody@lemmings.world 1 year ago
The stock market has to be one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made as human beings.
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What even is the point? The stock market is just a ticking time bomb and when it fucks up, people lose their job and their house and anything else thats sustained by income. The existence of the stock market is a crime against humanity. You can’t even blame a single dictator for what happens to people when it crashes.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Because it makes the fat cats even richer, they couldn’t give less of a fuck about the rest of us.
GhostOfElectricity@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 year ago
It’s time the fat cats had a heart attack.