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Require? Genuinely require? It seems to me the high cost comes from attempting to create profit margin. If the profit is basically eliminated, the person can ha
by komali2 4y ago
Require? Genuinely require? It seems to me the high cost comes from attempting to create profit margin. If the profit is basically eliminated, the person can have the high wage, and we can have the nice things.
- WalterBright 4y ago> If the profit is basically eliminated, the person can have the high wage, and we can have the nice things. Somehow, however, such Marxist implementations never deliver those nice things.
- komali2 4y agoCo-ops are Marxist? If so, wow, Marxist businesses are remarkably profitable, productive [1], and resilient [2]! [1] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/worker-cooperatives-are-more-productive-than-normal-companies/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/worker-cooperative... [2] https://www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/2020-10/co-operative_survival_1.pdf https://www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/2020-10/co-operative...
- WalterBright 4y agoIf they are so remarkably profitable, why aren't they pervasive?
- komali2 4y agoAren't they? The top 300 cooperatives apparently accounted for 2.2 trillion in turnover back in 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171022081215/http://monitor.coop/ https://web.archive.org/web/20171022081215/http://monitor.co...
- WalterBright 4y agoSo go set one up, then! And btw, none of the text in your cite says anything about 2.2 trillion in turnover.
- komali2 4y agoThanks, I'll need to update the link on wikipedia later, it was correct last week. I have set up a co-op. It's going quite well.
- WalterBright 4y agoGood luck with your co-op. I have no issue with people setting up co-ops in a free market.
- WalterBright 4y agoYou can set up marxist organizations in a free country. They're perfectly legal. They just cannot force people to join, or prevent people from leaving.