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Worker Co-ops should be the norm, not the exception.

Not sure if this is the place for this, but I figured I'd share a thought I've been thinking about for a while… Worker cooperatives should be commonplace, all over the planet. (If you are unfamiliar with worker co-ops, I highly recommend looking into them. But just so we're all on the same page, they're businesses that are own completely and wholly by the workers who run the business. Usually this takes a form of direct democracy in the workplace, one worker, one vote. Everyone has equal say in how things will be run as everyone else.) Rather than being the rare exception to the typical employer-employee business model, businesses should be of and for the workers that do the actual labor of operating the businesses. Everyone shares the profits more equally, based much more closely on what they individually add to the company. (While I have been aware of…


Not sure if this is the place for this, but I figured I'd share a thought I've been thinking about for a while…
Worker cooperatives should be commonplace, all over the planet. (If you are unfamiliar with worker co-ops, I highly recommend looking into them. But just so we're all on the same page, they're businesses that are own completely and wholly by the workers who run the business. Usually this takes a form of direct democracy in the workplace, one worker, one vote. Everyone has equal say in how things will be run as everyone else.)

Rather than being the rare exception to the typical employer-employee business model, businesses should be of and for the workers that do the actual labor of operating the businesses. Everyone shares the profits more equally, based much more closely on what they individually add to the company.

(While I have been aware of worker co-ops for a while, I've recently been influenced by an economist by the name of Richard Wolff. I recommend his videos on youtube or the videos produced by his foundation “Democracy at Work” if you're interested in hearing more. Not affiliated, just a fan.)

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