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In Kim Stanley Robinson's 1990 book "Pacific Edge" (part of the California Trilogy) he envisions a utopian future where company sizes are legally limited to sto
by mprovost 4y ago
In Kim Stanley Robinson's 1990 book "Pacific Edge" (part of the California Trilogy) he envisions a utopian future where company sizes are legally limited to stop the formation of huge, multi-national corporations so that control and profits stay in the local community. I forget the exact number and some quick Googling doesn't help. I remember being really inspired by the book though.
- andromeduck 4y agoI think corporate income tax should scale with headcount ^ 0.8
- readthenotes1 4y agoNot sure that will be enough to cover the welfare for all the unemployed. It'd make a nice experiment...
- spockz 4y agoSomething similar he used in the Mars trilogy where there were COOPs where every employee owned a share of the company and there were no other shareholders. I don’t recall exactly how entering a company worked in the sense of buying or diluting stock.
- courgette 4y agoThe inspiration for the coop in the mars trilogy actually exists in the real world. I think it’s called the mondragon collective and it’s a meta-coop ? Here is the wiki about it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation I don’t have time to skim it now but it’s not small potatoes, it’s in the top ten of Spanish coorporation. If it’s not in the Mars trilogy; it’s in another of Robinson book