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Great point. We can start more cooperative enterprises. Are there good templates and software for the founding and unique management issues of a cooperative ent

by fogzen 9y ago

Great point. We can start more cooperative enterprises. Are there good templates and software for the founding and unique management issues of a cooperative enterprise? If you or anyone else has ideas on that, please share them :)

kiwicopple 9y ago
This is in no way battle-ready, but I have been thinking about this throughout the year and jotting my ideas - http://madebykade.com/manifesto/profit-sharing/ http://madebykade.com/manifesto/profit-sharing/
mooneater 9y ago
Related: Golder Associates is a canadian consulting engineering firm that is employee owned, Ive heard good things from people who worked there. Being employee owned really changes the politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golder_Associates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golder_Associates
Robotbeat 9y ago
Mondragon Corporation, but probably not a good example as it's huge and formed a long time ago. That's where I got the idea for pay ratios. Theirs is 4:1 for doctors, I believe. Here's a better example, a worker-owned engineering and manufacturing cooperative in Wisconsin: http://www.isthmuseng.com/company/worker-owned-cooperative/ http://www.isthmuseng.com/company/worker-owned-cooperative/ ...interestingly, they specialize in automation equipment. The way to make it possible to pay everyone well is to use automation. The only way to achieve that shiny Star Trek future is through replicators (which are a stand-in for general automation tech), although you could always be like the Ferengi and charge for use of the replicator... Tech ENABLES high wages even for janitors, but it doesn't guarantee it. That requires an actual choice.
kiliantics 9y ago
Check out platform.coop it's a movement based specifically around forming co-ops in tech. I think co-ops are the best approach right now to shifting our economy in a direction that is fair and equitable, rather than the capitalist economy of exploitation we are stuck with now.

by fogzen 9y ago

kiwicopple 9y ago

This is in no way battle-ready, but I have been thinking about this throughout the year and jotting my ideas - http://madebykade.com/manifesto/profit-sharing/ http://madebykade.com/manifesto/profit-sharing/

mooneater 9y ago

Related: Golder Associates is a canadian consulting engineering firm that is employee owned, Ive heard good things from people who worked there. Being employee owned really changes the politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golder_Associates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golder_Associates

Robotbeat 9y ago

Mondragon Corporation, but probably not a good example as it's huge and formed a long time ago. That's where I got the idea for pay ratios. Theirs is 4:1 for doctors, I believe. Here's a better example, a worker-owned engineering and manufacturing cooperative in Wisconsin: http://www.isthmuseng.com/company/worker-owned-cooperative/ http://www.isthmuseng.com/company/worker-owned-cooperative/ ...interestingly, they specialize in automation equipment. The way to make it possible to pay everyone well is to use automation. The only way to achieve that shiny Star Trek future is through replicators (which are a stand-in for general automation tech), although you could always be like the Ferengi and charge for use of the replicator... Tech ENABLES high wages even for janitors, but it doesn't guarantee it. That requires an actual choice.

kiliantics 9y ago

Check out platform.coop it's a movement based specifically around forming co-ops in tech. I think co-ops are the best approach right now to shifting our economy in a direction that is fair and equitable, rather than the capitalist economy of exploitation we are stuck with now.