• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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    1 year ago

    The reality clearly demonstrates that investors don’t bother investing in coops. You’ve obviously never actually tried to get investors to invest in a coop.

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      1 year ago

      No I haven’t.

      But I expect that the search for people who want to participate in an expanding cooperative is the bigger problem.

      Do you know of a cooperative that wants to issue bonds?

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        1 year ago

        I recommend learning a bit about the subject before arguing about it. Cooperatives don’t issue bonds because nobody is going to buy these bonds.

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          1 year ago

          Or cooperatives don’t issue bonds because they believe that nobody will buy them.

          It’s the perfect investment for people who don’t want to participate in the usual capitalism.

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            1 year ago

            If you ever try starting a coop you’ll find out how hard it is to get investment in practice. It’s kind of hilarious that you think nobody thought of these obvious things to try before you.

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              It’s not new but also not tried in a convincing way.

              I believe that it is possible and that it’s worth trying until a working combination is found.

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                  Ok, you were convinced. I mean the search for how to finance cooperatives should only be done when investors don’t hesitate to buy cooperative bonds.

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                    The reality is that it’s much more difficult to get the initial funding for a coop than a traditional company, and it’s not that lots of people haven’t been trying different approaches including the hare brained schemes you floated many times. The fact that you just keep repeating something that’s demonstrably false means that there’s no point continuing this discussion. Have a good day.