Every company should be owned by its employees

Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by Aissen on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:41AM (#41065874)

> Your barista at Starbucks is not going to increase the stock price no matter how well he fills your order

But 400k barista all doing it well might.

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Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by vsuperpower2021 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:55AM (#41065988)

This is not tenable. 400k people aren't going to all individually work extra hard for starbucks if their own work doesn't individually benefit them.

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Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by topper-123 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:16AM (#41066142)

True, but could the incentuve be structured around the individual employee’s coffee shop (which would mean divulging the i individual coffee shops financials? That could make each employee look better out for the profitability of their coffee shop.

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Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by ErikBjare on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:07AM (#41066065)

I think the idea is that feelings of co-ownership in the company could affect the company culture positively. Although I'm sure the effect diminishes with company size.

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Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by briandear on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:41AM (#41066310)

This is precisely the failure that advocates of communism fail to grasp. They failed to read their Adam Smith. We saw this play out in the Soviet Union.

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Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by bregma on Thursday July 25, 2024 @06:26AM (#41066892)

The Soviet Union never even attempted communism.

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