One of the best books I read over the past few years was Democracy at Work by Wolff. I'm in my 30s now and have some real savings from working during my 20s, en

One of the best books I read over the past few years was Democracy at Work by Wolff. I'm in my 30s now and have some real savings from working during my 20s, enough that I could conceivably have a go at starting a business to solve some problems that I see. Unfortunately I can't think of my relationship with the hypothetical employees of this hypothetical business as anything other than exploitative. The book introduced me to the idea of a worker-self-directed cooperative (which is a different from your local grocery co-op or credit union) which might dissolve such a relationship. The only tech companies I've heard of who are structured similar to this are a consulting/product company called Informal Systems and Motion Twin, the developer of the game Dead Cells. I'm sure such a business has its unique problems but after a decade of seeing the dysfunction inside "regular" companies my mind is pretty open in this regard.