Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?
HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months agoI don’t know where you are located. I am in the US and a co-op is just a corporation so all the things that apply to a private corporation apply to a co-op. When applying for grants there are no differentiators that I can think of. One advantage for a co-op here is that there are no passive investors.
novibe@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
For my city, just for a very specific example, it takes less than one afternoon and 80 bucks total (no fees and almost no capital fund requirements) to open a corporation. It takes weeks if not months to open a coop and it costs 2500 bucks PER member.
I don’t know the specifics of all cities and states everywhere in the world. But the system is built to benefit private corporations much more, as it’s a capitalist system where owning capital equals power, and workers are a commodity.
HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Can you tell me what city this is? For me this would be reason enough to move.
novibe@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Sorry I would rather not :/