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If companies were employee owned and operated you wouldn't need half the regulations and laws on the books that we do now. They would have been better served by
by datavirtue 5y ago
If companies were employee owned and operated you wouldn't need half the regulations and laws on the books that we do now. They would have been better served by creating more rights for all workers instead of this odd-ball stuff that ends up getting struck down and handing more power to corporate shadow characters.
- hibern8 5y agoWhat is stopping employees of a company from getting together and starting a rival, employee owned company?
- heavyset_go 5y agoThe current undemocratic nature of capital allocation that disfavors worker-ownership.
- djbebs 5y agoYou mean the nature of worker owned cooperatives means they exclude potential equity investors from providing the capital? You understand that you're complaining about the fact that non-workers can't own a cooperative and as such they will not invest in them, right? You're literally complaining about what you don't want to happen not happening...
- heavyset_go 5y agoAllocating capital through the whims of equity investors is inherently undemocratic.
- Cederfjard 5y agoHow would you see it allocated instead?
- djbebs 5y agoSo let me get this straight, you want me to give you money so that you can build and run a business, and you also want me to have no control over how that money is used, and for me to get no benefit from the whole thing? Why would I give you my money?
- ohCh6zos 5y agoDemocracy means representing the will of the people. Do democratic processes produce better outcomes? Because the last 10 years of America would seem to indicate polling for the collective will is no promise of good outcomes.