Co-ops aren't so much a fancy business model as they are a basic one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative It's

Co-ops aren't so much a fancy business model as they are a basic one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative It's just that more often than not, participants in western economies don't start co-ops because the profit potential for the founders isn't remotely close to what it could be for starting a run of the mill corporation.