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> And as a cooperative all dabbawalas are equal partners with supervisors called mukadams who are elected. That would seem to make it pretty fundamentally inco
by black_puppydog 6y ago
> And as a cooperative all dabbawalas are equal partners with supervisors called mukadams who are elected.
That would seem to make it pretty fundamentally incompatible with the wage extraction operations that are uber, deliveroo etc.
- iguy 6y agoAnd the fact that the average length of employment at this is measured in decades, possibly generations. It's an ecosystem not a startup. (Which doesn't mean there aren't things to learn, of course, for those trying to run more conventional businesses.)
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoA coop operating alone in this space, or competing with other coops, would definitely make a profit. But a coop can't compete with a VC backed startup that will use every legal, illegal, ethical and unethical trick in the book it can get away with to, to destroy its competitors.
- nicoburns 6y ago> But a coop can't compete with a VC backed startup that will use every legal, illegal, ethical and unethical trick in the book it can get away with to, to destroy its competitors. Yes, and I think aspect of capitalism is under-discussed. The conventional narrative is that it doesn't matter how much wealth somebody else (or some other company) has. You can compete on your own merit. But companies like Uber and other VC-backed "unicorns" show otherwise. They can afford to give away their product for free on the back of money that they didn't earn in any meaningful way. And it completely breaks the model.
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