Re:DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM
by eitally on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:10PM
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There are a few food companies that are partially or completely employee owned that I'd consider "very successful". But this business model is not typical and examples are rare.
https://inequality.org/article/5-workerowned-food-firms-riva...
Re:DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM
by ghaff on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:26PM
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And most of those companies are low three-digit employee counts. I mean, I like King Arthur and tend to visit their store when I'm in the area, but it's only a relatively significant employer by the standards of Norwich, VT.
Re:DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM
by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @04:22PM
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Why do folks think that is? Are there some US-specifics that make them less likely?
For example, the Mondragon Corporation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation, in the Basque region of Spain is pretty huge (70,000 employees) and I watched a short news documentary about Mondragon and in general the employees there sounded legions happier than corporate drones in other companies.
What would you consider to be successful, and what is marketplace naming here?
Cooperatives are going to be the main thriving organizational structure when the political agenda in place favors them, and the very same statement apply for resource omni-capture oligopolies. Look at who have hands on the political schedule, and that’s all nailed.
Living in France, I never worked for any structure that would provide any equity (not saying this doesn’t exist at all). But France still has a very different non-wage labour costs compared to US (or common-law in general I guess), so employment tradeoffs are very different.