It depends on the mix of roles in a company I guess, but animal farm comes to mind here: all worker-owners are equal (but some are more equal than others). What

It depends on the mix of roles in a company I guess, but animal farm comes to mind here: all worker-owners are equal (but some are more equal than others). What happens when the company expands? Do the new employees get equal shares? But these are positive-negatives, i.e. the harm is done by being successful. When the company starts to fail, what then? What happens when a company needs to downsize? Which of the worker-owners will survive, and under what conditions? Will it be political, e.g. we all vote, so the 7 PAs who everyone loves get to stay, but the entire sales department gets voted out? What about if departments vote together? Seems very sketchy. Ironically, the ability to survive failure is why our system perpetuates. In the hard times, hard choices can be made that are individually distasteful, but required. Evolution is driven by the non-dying breeding, and corporate evolution is similar, with company structures that can navigate the bad times - much more than maximise the good times - the ones most likely to be replicated.