REI is not worker-owned FYI. It's a consumer-owned co-op. Different beast VCs are not interested in worker-owned coops. Economic climate works against the conc

REI is not worker-owned FYI. It's a consumer-owned co-op. Different beast VCs are not interested in worker-owned coops. Economic climate works against the concept at scale. Workers are also divided on it and are not organized around enabling it. Employers are highly coordinated on maintaining current employer-worker relations. edit: here is some related reading you might find interesting: - Sociocracy - consent-based decision-making organizations (as opposed to dreadful unanimous decision-making which doesn't work and is a common criticism of non-hierarchical organizations) https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy/ https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy/ // https://sociocracy30.org https://sociocracy30.org - a UK tech co-op network: https://www.coops.tech https://www.coops.tech but it seems a lot of these are more tech services than product companies