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Re:Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuit... by WalterBright on Thursday February 09, 2023 @08:42PM (#34734536)
> If the profit is basically eliminated, the person can have the high wage, and we can have the nice things.

Somehow, however, such Marxist implementations never deliver those nice things.

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Re:Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuit... by komali2 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:32PM (#34735285)
Co-ops are Marxist?

If so, wow, Marxist businesses are remarkably profitable, productive [1], and resilient [2]!

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/worker-cooperative...

[2] https://www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/2020-10/co-operative...

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Re:Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuit... by WalterBright on Friday February 10, 2023 @03:23PM (#34745278)
If they are so remarkably profitable, why aren't they pervasive?
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Re:Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuit... by komali2 on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:20PM (#34749548)
Aren't they? The top 300 cooperatives apparently accounted for 2.2 trillion in turnover back in 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171022081215/http://monitor.co...
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Re:Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuit... by WalterBright on Saturday February 11, 2023 @01:04AM (#34749989)
So go set one up, then!

And btw, none of the text in your cite says anything about 2.2 trillion in turnover.

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Re:Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuit... by komali2 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @05:11AM (#34751009)
Thanks, I'll need to update the link on wikipedia later, it was correct last week.

I have set up a co-op. It's going quite well.

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Re:Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuit... by WalterBright on Saturday February 11, 2023 @02:08PM (#34755238)
Good luck with your co-op. I have no issue with people setting up co-ops in a free market.
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Re:Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuit... by WalterBright on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:15PM (#34747333)
You can set up marxist organizations in a free country. They're perfectly legal. They just cannot force people to join, or prevent people from leaving.
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