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  • It would absolutely work.

    Forcing people into crippling debt, however, helps create the indentured servitude class. The in debt students and future workers are less likely to waste time on stupid things like protesting or revolt.

    Educational debt is one of the prongs of system rigging and the elites in America prefer it this way.
    Elite owned media keeps pumping out the bs of affordability and scaring people with trans nonsense and the cycle keeps on going.

    If Americans could wake the f up it could change quickly, but history has shown that they won’t.




  • Oh I bet a cooperative would have plenty of internal conflict. No group of humans gets together without conflict even when incentives are really well aligned.

    The points above on the governance model I think are ideal, but another reason to do this would be to encourage other companies to look at the model and be encouraged to adopt it. If you start with a co op I think it’s less likely other companies would look at that and say he lets convert to a coop. I want to find ways to help improve the system currently running not just make one just company.

    A great outcome in my mind is a story where you say look at this software company that’s fully unionized and they are killing it on growth and productivity, even higher than those non union shops.

    This would make everyone pay attention because people don’t really care about anything but long term growth independent of the company’s operating system.

    A co op would be so different from existing systems that I fear people would think hey that’s neat but we can’t replicate it unless we started over.


  • That is absolutely one model, but I think it might be better to have an explicit union setup to avoid the co op elements being perverted into old school capitalism over time and nobody wants to unionize there because it is nominally a co op.

    It might be more interesting to setup an explicit capitalist vs union structure where the capitalist side has strict bylaws in place to enforce union negotiation and support. That would probably be more honest over time as I think systems tend towards power for those that are running things one way or another.

    A co op could work really well though if the company stayed smaller and had strict guidelines for membership and clear processes for removal of bad actors.

    Definitely worth a lot more thought.