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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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