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

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GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

As the other commenter put it, it depends on how it’s structured. There are so many ways to set up a coop I won’t get into how shares affect dividends.

Instead I’ll use your example to show why your voting right is worth more than how the profits gets distributed. If you’re making ten bucks from your share and the founder is making a million, then the cooperative has to be okay with that arrangement. If you’re collectively not okay with it then you have the power to change that. The founder can have all the shares in the world, they still have one vote. Since you collectively have the majority of votes you can simply vote to change how profits get distributed and the founder has to accept it because they don’t own the cooperative, you all do.

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