I agree, but the problem is that is actually socialism by definition and as soon as people hear the word socialism or communism they freak the fuck out because capital owners has made people believe that socialism or communism is the end-times and all will starve and die under a dictatorship. Yeah it doesn't really make sense that worker owned and/or controlled and straight up dictatorship control are mutually exclusive, but you aren't going to have too great of luck convincing people that they, and likely most of their family and friends, were completely duped for the last 90+ years and completely bought into the lie.

All that said, co-op businesses have seen slow but steady growth for decades now.