As a systems guy I find Mondragon interesting on an organizational level. They have an internal economy of cooperatives, with cooperatives for social safety nets, pensions, health care, and unemployment. Some critics say this would never work in the U.S. in part because we're too individualistic, even though we already have some successful kinds of cooperatives like credit unions, but I disagree. We have the technology. I think someone could feasibly build a service to connect workers to form businesses. Workers could be organizing, starting their own cooperatives, and cooperative alliances, instead of putting up with the constant b.s., and even drive meaningful change. If you could, would you? What do you think is stopping this from happening? More info on Mondragon Corp. *This was originally meant to be a poll but for some reason that option isn't available here.
