I'm not under the impression that "the same system we have now but a bunch of worker coops" would be some kind of ideal society, but it's far and away a better business structure than the ones we have now.

What are the barriers to successful coops being established?

  • D61 [any]
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    4 years ago

    As KobaCumTribute's said, there's the basic capital barrier. Like, literally not having the cash to start a business.

    There's the "which one of us is going to be the traitor?" paranoia.

    There's the local community/customer base that can straight up see "Co-op" in the name and think, "Isn't that commie shit? and nope the fuck out."

    And probably the number one thing is... in most places, there's already private ownership of any service a community would want. So having some "new" business, even one that is a co-op, might not be seen as a welcome enterprise. Hard work would need to be done in the local community to figure out what is needed in a community and how a worker co-op organization would be better than a private organization.