I think it’s very telling that the discussion is all just around giving employees share options in what is otherwise a typical top-down company, rather than discussing actual co-ownership and bringing democratic practises to the workplace.
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dactylotheca@suppo.fi 2 months ago
Unsurprisingly HN is full of people who are sure that this would be bad for society and that it should be up for the “market to decide.” Because if co-ops were good they’d be more common, not like there’s any societal context that could keep them from being more popular
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 months ago
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 2 months ago
It really doesn’t seem to even occur to a lot of people that there are different ways to do this stuff
thurstylark@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah, this is prime !techtakes@awful.systems material right here
sushibowl@feddit.nl 2 months ago
this HN comment at the top illustrates the perspective:
In other words, The market system as it currently exists maximizes profit over worker welfare, and that’s why these coops are not successful. That’s a fairly damning indictment of the market.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 2 months ago
Yeah there were so many condemnations of the idea that brought up “but they’d maximize worker welfare!” like it’s a bad thing