- Joined
- Sep 1, 2018
This is parroted so much and it's so dumb. Even a foreign trade professor at some course i did time ago told to us "If you're good at operating machinery, don't get into PR or accounting." And this was a way of saying that companies are structured in a way for a reason: there is people that is better at X things than others. That's why most company owners are invested in the production process but not in accounting. Outsourcing takes wheight off your back you focus on work and also you don't run the risk of fucking up. And don't get me wrong, cooperatives work well here and there, but in the current situation they will take the hardest hit of all.There is no law or regulation that makes these Utopian worker co-ops impossible in the US today, right now.
The reason they don't happen is because they aren't what most people want, most people are fine with not owning the means of their production, accepting wage/salary and benefits as fair enough compensation and leaving the politics and bureaucracy of running the nuts-and-bolts of a workplace to the actual owners. I'm fine with not being part of the arms of my job that deal with managing advertising and the fleet vehicles and insurance and taxes and payroll, and I want it to stay that way.
So, whenever I see someone shilling hard for the co op model of mini communes I can pretty much tell they're going to pull the false consciousness excuse of why they need shilled for in the first place "You don't know how GOOD you could have it if only you stopped believing you actually LIKE things as they are you dumb sheep!"
If they were any good, you'd see workers advocating them over the "smart" academics.
I would go a bit more into detail, but i don't know how cooperatives are taxed in the US or if they are taxed differently than other companies. Because the form of taxing is extremely important with this quarentine shitshow going on.