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Re:Mondragon as the New City-State by immibis on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @08:37PM (#41440707)
Maybe because they are farms and not rocket makers
Re:Mondragon as the New City-State by trhway on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @08:49PM (#41440786)
Why they are farms and not rocket makers? Because collective.
Re:Mondragon as the New City-State by nl on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @11:08PM (#41441514)
But there are very successful rocketry collectives! They just typically aren't called "farms".

Things like Friends of Amateur Rocketry have all the characteristics of a collective (including legal status) https://friendsofamateurrocketry.org/

The constraining factor is typically budget (as mentioned up-thread).

Re:Mondragon as the New City-State by immibis on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @04:27AM (#41443207)
By this logic capitalism is the thing holding back capitalist farms from being rocket makers too? Or do you only apply it when you get to use the word "collective"?
Re:Mondragon as the New City-State by trhway on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @07:32AM (#41444421)
Of course it is the logic of collective. In capitalism you decide how you'd want to spend your resources, on a farm or on a rocket. In collective it is collective who decides.
Re:Mondragon as the New City-State by immibis on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @08:05AM (#41444688)
Capitalist farms - why are they farms and not rocket makers? Is capitalism holding them back?
Re:Mondragon as the New City-State by trhway on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @01:15PM (#41448165)
In capitalism it is your choice how to spend your resources - on the farm or on a rocket shop.
Re:Mondragon as the New City-State by Viliam1234 on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @10:22AM (#41446188)
That's not an excuse. In socialist Czechoslovakia, a coop farm produced computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JZD_Slu%C5%A1ovice#TNS_Compute...

Re:Mondragon as the New City-State by soulofmischief on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @02:37PM (#41448996)
It looks like this system was created out of necessity; there was no viable product for what they needed. Necessity is the mother of innovation after all, and we find this sorts of innovation frequently in non-collectivized entrepreneurships as well. Still, very cool!