4 ms·
I honestly don't know why we need corporations at all. All they do is make a small number of rich people richer. I'd be happy to see the corporation phazed out
by breakyerself 12y ago
I honestly don't know why we need corporations at all. All they do is make a small number of rich people richer. I'd be happy to see the corporation phazed out in favor of cooperatives.
- ZeroGravitas 12y agoStrange to find you downvoted. I just finished reading a brief history of the cooperative movement in the UK. I was amused by the various parallels to Free Software: the explicitly utopian premise, the entrenched interests fighting with FUD, the originators being laughed at as kooks and nerds, the startling success of the model that rapidly made it "normal" in many industries. Much like (social) darwinism, too much has been made of competition compared with cooperation in business, in both cases against all evidence (families, herds, the fact that we are ourselves built from cooperating organisms, or on the business side that you have far more suppliers, customers and employees than competitors), because it suited some people with power to justify their actions.
- mercer 12y ago> I just finished reading a brief history of the cooperative movement in the UK. I'd love to read this. Can you point me in the right direction?
- ZeroGravitas 12y agoIt was an educational graphic novel produced the by CO-OP group in the UK: http://www.co-operative.coop/our-ethics/our-plan/co-operative-support/graphic-novel/ http://www.co-operative.coop/our-ethics/our-plan/co-operativ... You can read the whole thing online in a (slightly) animated Flash version.
- mercer 12y agoThanks! I thought I'd have to go find a book in one of those book-buildings. Much appreciated!