[Affric]

Well said.

Good co-ops that last have the decisions made by those working there.

And it's a lot of work.

[prawn]

And I'd guess that a restaurant doesn't have the scale to shoulder a management tier and the costs involved.

[__loam]

Sure but nobody is pretending that there shouldn't be some kind of way of making decisions in these organizations. The point is that the people making those decisions were chosen by and accountable to the workers at the firm, not external shareholders. The incentives are completely different.