The False Gods of Economics

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noddy
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Re: The False Gods of Economics

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Endovelico wrote:
noddy wrote:You cant make cooperatives happen, they require motivated and ermm, cooperative people... all you can do is make sure government legislation isnt making them harder todo than they already are and then hope the culture is independant and creative enough to take advantage of it.

highly atomised and entitled people who cant even cooperate with themselves, its snot gunna happen.
A government keen on changing the way things are could very well encourage cooperatives and an increase in local power. It could even cheat a bit and give to cooperatives tax breaks not available to capitalist firms. Small is beautiful and, most of all, is not dangerous to freedom and democracy. What you sacrifice on economies of scale you gain in legitimacy and in a decrease in conflictuality (hope this word exists in English...).
missed this - and yes i mostly agree.

however neither the government left or the corporate right that is our current system have any interest in this so its not a political option for any of us.

rent seekers to the left, rent seekers to the right - co-operative libertarians are isolated loons laughed at by both sides.
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Re: The False Gods of Economics

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In the US we have what is called a B Corporation, it's a new kind of corporation that is allowed to be a for-profit privately owned entity but has the same sort of rigorous mission requirements as a non-profit.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
-Alexander Hamilton
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