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by arjie
31 days ago
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> Here is relative, I'm here on the forum and here in W.Australia. That's true. "Here" doesn't mean anything on its own. I gathered as much from your response. I was clarifying what I was curious about because clearly I'd attached my "in the US" in my original comment to the wrong phrase. > There's nothing preventing co-ops from operating in the US other than culture. Right, and this is why I was curious. It seemed to me that while there is nothing preventing this from happening, and while there are many commenters here who are expressing that they'd like one, I haven't really heard of one. In the US, of course. |
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Weirdly, CBH is almost equivalent to a US style company in many ways - just that the major shareholders are all equal voting co owners with skin (well, land) in the game.
Which is very different to what an IT / programmer collective might look like - the assets are the intangible skills and knowledge that members bring to the table.
We (Australia) also do Men's Sheds which are often co-op type structures - place for blokey types to hang and build stuff as they get older - some of their projects can get largish in scale.
* https://mensshedswa.org.au/
* https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/mens-sheds/about-mens-she...
There's certainly room and scope to drag a few NAS boxen and community services (photo archiving, free to air public broadcast mirroring and on demand streaming, drone mapping and GIS path maintaining, etc.) into local area Men's Sheds.