Comment on I'll care when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers.

• DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Then go ahead and start one :D Good luck finding a bank that gives you an unsecured loan to start a business.

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  • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Eh, banks give out loans for people to start restaurants all the time, and restaurants are notoriously risky businesses. There’s hundreds of worker-owned co-ops in the States, so it’s not impossible to find a bank that will fund them.

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    • CoCo_Goldstein@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Eh, banks give out loans for people to start restaurants all the time

      ** Citation needed.

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      • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        ** Citation needed.

        Looks outside

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And if you want a reward for founding a business but want it to be a co-op there are methods thst are reasonable and fair like selling it bit by bit to the employee union at a reasonable price or willing your company to your workers.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This unironically

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• boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You still take all the risk because the bank is going to say they won’t give a loan to a new company without a track record, unless someone is willing to be a guarantor.

  Now you share the profits, but all the risk is yours.

  Unless you have a bunch of people lined up to start the co-op and they’re all willing to pitch in or become guarantors with you, in which case it might just work - but again, the initial people are going to have more skin in the game than the rest.

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