Re:Every company should be owned by its employees
by peepee1982 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @07:29AM
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Not so many cooperatives to apply for, are there? Otherwise I would definitely prefer worker owned.
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Re:Every company should be owned by its employees
by zby on Thursday July 25, 2024 @07:56AM
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But you can create one? If many people wanted to join a cooperative - then it should be easy to do?
Re:Every company should be owned by its employees
by rakoo on Thursday July 25, 2024 @08:04AM
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Please, again, don't be so naive. You know that creating a company requires capital (not just financial, all of them), which only the richest have. By design.
Re:Every company should be owned by its employees
by bialpio on Thursday July 25, 2024 @11:59AM
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Good idea, I'm gonna quit my job today and start my own coop with all the earnings my current employer shared with me! Oh, wait...
Seriously though, most people cannot afford to just quit. You at least need savings for that, and you need to be fine with burning through them and still failing, cause that's a very real possibility.
Re:Every company should be owned by its employees
by johnnyanmac on Friday July 26, 2024 @01:58PM
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you? Maybe. Me? I have about 15k in credit card bills, $20 in the bank, and my current rent/utiliies take up ~60% of my monthly income. I also have no leverage to be trusted to run a co-op, so I can't attract proper talent to realize the business.
Maybe in a decade when the market and my debt recovers? But I'm planing to work for myself anyway. I have no issues with a co-op if I ever make enough to bring someone else on.