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TIL: Kropotkin was not a communist. Nestor Makhno, Errico Malatesta, Jose Durruti? Not communists either. Who'd have thought?

That would probably be competition. A monopolist corporation has no incentive to improve its capital if it gets its profit anyway (c.f. the dismal state of DSL and cable). But if it's not a monopolist, it might be forced to anyway.

It's the same thing at a worker cooperative, or for that matter at a heavily unionized workplace: the workers have no incentive to automate themselves out of a job, but may collectively understand that if they don't, the business will go under and they'll all be left without jobs.

Some cooperatives mandate one worker one vote, rather than one share one vote. The most well-known example is Mondragon.