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burnt-resistor 3 days ago

Problem part A. Working for a greedy, reckless corporation without belonging to a union and investing way too much time, effort, and emotional energy in a parasocial, dishonest, unfair, and fragile arrangement.

Problem part B. Not working for a sustainable, worked-owned co-op that prioritizes authenticity, fairness, stability, worker happiness, and customer satisfaction. Such environments have extremely low turnover. The main gotcha is they generally aren't scalable beyond medium-sized organizations, but the workaround is a loose federation of a multitude of similar and complementary organizations whom band together for purchasing power, common infrastructure, standards, and process templates.

frm88 2 days ago | parent [-]

There are a few to scale, like Emilia Romana (Italy, 8000 employees) or Mondragon in Spain (79K employees), unfortunately not in tech. I only know of DATEV with some 8000 employees in that sector.

The co-op model in general is so very promising and those that still exist are really successful and from video documentations I watched, the employees seem to be content, if not getting rich. The problem is that this model runs counter to the very core of capitalism and as such faces a lot of criticism.