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I recommend reading more about existing cooperatives. They offer way better packages to their employees than manager-owned companies. This can also include life insurances, health …

The free market is a set of principles between companies, not a principle for how companies need to be organized internally. Capitalism is based on single-owned companies. Cooperat…

Totally. The USSR had no worker-owned companies. They all belonged to the state. There was no economy which is based on cooperatives in a free market, yet.

That’s why cooperatism is superior to socialism and capitalism. It’s a free market of worker-owned companies, creating things by running their businesses together.

That doesn’t change the fact that every month there are people putting money into that fund and people getting money out of that fund. The money you put in, is not the same money y…

> I don't think all the value created by workers is realized as profit immediately. And as the worker creating that future profit you are very well aware of that, plus everyone els…

Where’s the cooperative in your example? Either you are a freelance author who has a contract with a publishing cooperative. In this case you have a contract with that cooperative …

Living in a country with strong workers rights, this is not how pensions work. The pensions people receive every month are literally paid by the taxes which are collected from ever…

A free market of cooperatives is an alternative. One might call it „cooperatism“, if it needs a term.

Profits belong to the people who create them, not to people who used to work at the same company in the past. Expecting future employees of a company to work for ex-employees in th…

Cooperatives guarantee that only people working in the company benefit from the profit of their own work. If one can stop working and still take a share from the profits, everyone …

I’ve been waiting for this since the first talk about Unison. Love the huge progress you have made and congrats to the public release of Unison Cloud! Question: Is it possible to s…

The author is not a scientist, wrote a book called »Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death« and he cites only on…

haha good point. I guess I should change the title to email then or better think about using snail mail. I’d actually enjoy that too

Why should we exclude some people from living in attractive cities? Being less wealthy doesn’t mean a job is less valuable. Police officers, firefighters, bakers, artists, nurses… …

What’s so good about owning? Renting is way better, if it’s affordable: - I can move out when my life circumstances change. - I can move out when the district changes. - I don’t ne…

Nope, because the market doesn’t care about you. It doesn’t care if you have a place to live, if you are healthy, if you are safe… Not restricting "the market" at all leads to a wo…