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by aalleavitch 2325 days ago
Worker-owned co-ops are a cure for all of this.
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Do you think that, for example, a worker-owned Intel could ever be a thing? I think this model works only for simple businesses.
Do they need to be so complex? Would it not make as much sense for Intel to be broken up into a large number of individual autonomous entities that then cooperate with each other on their own terms?
There are some quite substantial worker owned businesses around the world.
Huawei is/was worker-owned.
One could argue that Huawei, and all chinese companies, are effectively state-owned.
Communists tried that. Didn't work very well.

Worker owned co-ops will indeed solve this problem, because they are very hard to scale. So they won't ever reach the level where mazes are a real problem. This being said, they also have the potential to come with their own set of issues - trying to get a bunch of people to decide things is also a very time consuming endeavor.