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In the current economy I feel co-ops are bit too radical to remedy the imbalances of power within large businesses (where it really matters). We might need something less aggressive like the widespread promotion of Employee Stock Ownership Programs (ESOPs) as a start [1]. Also co-ops might come across to business people as something along the lines of "loony-leftist Marxist idealism". Instead one can speak their language by saying things like "decentralizing planning" and "capitalism where everyone is a capitalist" and show how there is indeed common ground. An excellent example of this is The Capitalist Manifesto by Luis Kelso [2] (the creator of ESOPs).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_stock_ownership_plan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capitalist_Manifesto

[atupis]

Here Finland we have couple very large Co-ops eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_Group and there is not really any difference between large corporation and large Co-ops at daily life.