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No, just entrepreneurship with many equal shareholders. Unless you start demanding for special treatment and exclusion from market forces, which is usually what
by waihtis 3y ago
No, just entrepreneurship with many equal shareholders. Unless you start demanding for special treatment and exclusion from market forces, which is usually what the communists are actually after
- derelicta 3y agoYou just invented cooperatives. Which is indeed a significant part of what communists wish to achieve. Now you gotta wonder: is workplace democracy such a bad thing?
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> is workplace democracy such a bad thing? Yes, they're called committees. They're wildly inefficient for fundamental reasons [1]. We tolerate them in government, because when it comes to the state, we've learned that being consistently right is more important than being efficient. That's not the case in commerce. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
- waihtis 3y agoThe amount of openly communistic commenters on HN is both hilarious and concerning at the same time.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> openly communistic I don't think worker-owned companies are communist. Until recently, investment banks and law firms were predominantly structured as partnerships.
- waihtis 3y agoPerhaps, but the ideals of the above commenters certainly do not come from investment banks
- bmicraft 3y agoWorker owned companies is basically the definition of socialism. It's kinda telling that you'd call it communism