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>"there is no ethical consumption under capitailism." Imagine there was a competitor to Uber and Lyft that was owned by the drivers themselves in the form of a
by ZenoArrow 10y ago
>"there is no ethical consumption under capitailism."
Imagine there was a competitor to Uber and Lyft that was owned by the drivers themselves in the form of a cooperative, so that any new drivers would have equal say in the direction the service took. Would that not be more ethical than Uber and Lyft?
- wowca 10y agoBut that wouldn't be organized as a capitalist company then.
- willyt 10y agoWho cares? John Lewis is a partnership of all 90,000 employees and they are probably the most successful supermarket and department store chain in Britain. They dominate high end food and homeware sales. http://www.johnlewis.com/customer-services/information-about-john-lewis#cq-i-social http://www.johnlewis.com/customer-services/information-about...
- adrienne 10y ago...sure it would? Cooperatives of various sorts are a time-tested method of corporate organization, and plenty of them exist as corporations and make money in capitalist systems.
- tempodox 10y agoHow do you know it's more ethical before knowing the actual decisions made?
- ZenoArrow 10y agoDepends on your definition of ethics, but it's very likely to be more democratically run and have smaller wage inequality.