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by photonthug 698 days ago
Yeah. Saying "COOPs don't fundamentally change human behavior which has doses of greed" is like saying that a kingdom works the same way as a democracy since hey, it's all just humans. Simply involving more decision makers is a meaningful change. Certainly involving more decision makers that are outside of the business/legal/accounting class is a meaningful change.
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Technically a worker owned Co-op is different from a company with an ESOP as described in this article. The article it links to has more details: https://www.nceo.org/articles/employee-ownership-by-the-numb...

There are a multitude of ways that employee ownership can be encouraged, required, or ownership can be limited to employees.