[Jensson]

> But making fast about turns that you sometimes need to do in a business setting is nigh impossible, which is actually hazardous to everyone in the cooperative. This might even be the primary reason cooperatives (being an old idea) hasn't survived other than as a fringe phenomena.

There are large cooperatives, but only in "solved" industries so there aren't many hard decisions left to make. Programming is not one of those fields yet.

[adwn]

You think that there are no hard business decisions to make in established – i.e., non-software – industries? It's just smooth sailing along predefined routes?