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care to explain?

• TeaBrain 2y ago
  They were trying to be irrelevantly clever. Mondragon is a worker cooperative, where workers are the "owners".
• velcrovan 2y ago
  Sure. I was replying to a comment in which worker ownership and worker leverage were being equated with "the gulag", a collective term for the Soviet Union prison/labor camp system. To illustrate that large-scale freedom, ownership, and autonomy do not result in labor camps, I provided Mondragon as a productive counter-example. Mondragon is a federation of worker-owned cooperatives that netted €593 million on €11 billion in revenue in 2023, and which did not make use of a forced labor camp or prison system to achieve these results. Instead, they use widely distributed equity ownership and democratic control of the workplace to create a good work environment and a healthy culture. Since the comment I was replying to did not invest any words in supporting their comparison of worker ownership with a system of forced labor camps, I responded in spirit, inviting them with a minimum of words and effort to investigate possible counter-examples to their mental model.
  • ta988 2y ago
    That makes a lot more sense with the explanation thanks.