I’ve been meaning to write about things like Mondragon for a few months now but have been unable to do so due to a lifelong medical condition called chronic laziness. Therefore, this guy’s video will have to do. Worker co-ops are one of the few viable options left to the lower classes, especially as everything gets more and more automated. In twenty years, we can be unemployed and poor or unemployed and collecting the money made by the machines that took our jobs. Pretty clear which is preferable, and even though this is an idea often traced back to socialism, i don’t see how any right winger with brain cells can object. I’m sure many will try, though.

Of course, such co-ops aren’t perfect. The profit motive IS still there and so there will still be some greed. But at least this way the workers are getting a fair share of what the greed produces. Heh…