Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid off?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid... by mprovost on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:40PM (#34480687)

In Kim Stanley Robinson's 1990 book "Pacific Edge" (part of the California Trilogy) he envisions a utopian future where company sizes are legally limited to stop the formation of huge, multi-national corporations so that control and profits stay in the local community. I forget the exact number and some quick Googling doesn't help. I remember being really inspired by the book though.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid... by spockz on Sunday January 22, 2023 @02:10PM (#34481123)

Something similar he used in the Mars trilogy where there were COOPs where every employee owned a share of the company and there were no other shareholders. I don’t recall exactly how entering a company worked in the sense of buying or diluting stock.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid... by courgette on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:34PM (#34481926)

The inspiration for the coop in the mars trilogy actually exists in the real world.

I think it’s called the mondragon collective and it’s a meta-coop ?

Here is the wiki about it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

I don’t have time to skim it now but it’s not small potatoes, it’s in the top ten of Spanish coorporation.

If it’s not in the Mars trilogy; it’s in another of Robinson book

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid... by andromeduck on Sunday January 22, 2023 @02:11PM (#34481137)

I think corporate income tax should scale with headcount ^ 0.8

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid... by readthenotes1 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @02:14PM (#34481181)

Not sure that will be enough to cover the welfare for all the unemployed. It'd make a nice experiment...

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