• J Lou@mastodon.social
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    12 hours ago

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    Worker coops can have managers. Managers’ interests can be aligned with the long term interests of the firm by giving them non-voting preferred shares as part of their compensation. Managers will make sure workers they are managing perform. The difference is that these managers are ultimately accountable to the entire body of workers and are thus their delegates.

    Profits/wages don’t have to be divided equally among workers.

    I’m going to use multiple toots since I’m on Mastodon

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      Managers’ interests can be aligned with the long term interests of the firm by giving them non-voting preferred shares as part of their compensation.

      It really depends on the specific form of socialism. If we look at the most influential forms (say, USSR or China), the decision makers are politicians, so they’re more motivated by power and influence than the good of the whole.

      IMO, socialism can work if it’s practiced by smaller orgs and not as a government structure. So unions and co-ops, not planned economies.