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Let's take a look at the pros and cons of cooperatives! A remake where I build up on my original analysis of the issues of cooperative economy under Capitalism as well as Socialism.
00:00 Introduction and Announcement
00:55 Definitions
01:48 Are Coops Truly Revolutionary? Conventional Enterprises vs Cooperatives
05:15 Consumer Cooperatives and The Limitations of Working Under Capitalism
07:10 The Class Interests of The Coop
09:06 Positives of Cooperatives
09:50 Strategy and Conclusion
In Netherlands (I think) it is not possible to found a co-operative that is also a not-for-profit. I didn’t get to musing much about it yet, but have been thinking about NonProfit Ventures (where all surplus revenue of the for-profit part of the venture flows into its not-for-profit part), Steward Ownership (where no one owns the company anymore, the company owns itself), and having a Co-operative be the for-profit part in that.
Just putting this out. I have little time to elaborate on it now.
PS. If you have good resources on new sustainable business models, I’d love it if you created an issue in delightful-sustainable-business as candidates for the curated list. And if you know about more interesting funding-related resources than I already collected, to add a comment to the delightful-funding candidate list.
In Netherlands (I think) it is not possible to found a co-operative that is also a not-for-profit. I didn’t get to musing much about it yet, but have been thinking about NonProfit Ventures (where all surplus revenue of the for-profit part of the venture flows into its not-for-profit part), Steward Ownership (where no one owns the company anymore, the company owns itself), and having a Co-operative be the for-profit part in that.
Just putting this out. I have little time to elaborate on it now.
PS. If you have good resources on new sustainable business models, I’d love it if you created an issue in delightful-sustainable-business as candidates for the curated list. And if you know about more interesting funding-related resources than I already collected, to add a comment to the delightful-funding candidate list.