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Well yes you might pay lower wages but make it up in more tax efficient dividends. - certainly being a member of a UK coop does have some advantages. It is tru

• toyg 9y ago
  That’s one of the things that work well at small scale (no real boss! Democacy! Sensible decisions!) but tends to fail at scale: i am a coop member (UK) and even a building society member (which is basically the same thing, just dedicated to real estate and banking), but I just can’t get myself to vote, because I don’t know anything about the candidates or the dynamics. I think co-ops are great for actual workers (i witnessed myself the best side of this), but once they grow they inevitably onboard a lot of other people and the whole concept goes a bit out of the window. There is also the pathology of a cooperative that needs to change to survive, but it’s forbidden doing so by members. E.g. a transport coop with a lot of buggy-whip technicians will find it hard to switch to a car-based model, because “buggy-whippers” are not going to vote themselves out of a job.