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jimbokunyesterday at 10:10 PM1 replyview on HN

Where’s your real world evidence of all these benefits of coops?

Because I would love for it to be true.


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shimmanyesterday at 10:32 PM

Well workplace democracy has only been tried in a few corporations. If you want an interesting business case look into Semco Partners in Brazil:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler#Semco_1990%E2%8...

There is academic research on this too if you're curious but it's mostly in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

But yes, there isn't much "evidence" because this system hasn't been tried en masse; however if you look at our current neoliberal hellscape, it's pretty hard to imagine it doing worse. Also neoliberalism wasn't really "tried" either, it was thrusted upon us by a group of individuals that wanted it.

One thing to keep in mind is that society can change quite quickly if you want it to. I'm sure the children that died working in factories during the 1800s never imagined such a society where children are valued, cared for, educated, and protected but it did happen.

It has happen before and it can happen again. It only happened because people were willing to fight for it.

The rules are allowed to be changed at anytime if we deem so, a better world is possible.

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