Every company should be owned by its employees - eviltoast
  • Caveman@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This sounds like a worker cooperative which is a classic socialist concept that could be applied to modern social democrat capitalism.

    Since I straddle the line in my political views between Marxism and social democracy I’d like to share an approach.

    Mandatory profit sharing and workers always have a certain proportion of the board elected democratically. Simple as that. CEO bonuses should be made illegal and all of those profits should be funneled to the workers. People will be a lot more involved in the corporate governance and it will align the will of the workers with that of the shareholders.

    Economists say that in the long run productivity is everything and worker’s having a for-profit voice that will make arguments like “we’re losing our best workers because of low pay” to increase salaries is important. This will make each person higher paid and more productive.

    You guys know about Walmart, that one rose to success by profit sharing but capitalism got the better of it and now so many workers both time and money poor because they work there.

    • J Lou@mastodon.social
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      4 months ago

      While many socialists supported worker coops in the interim, an economy of exclusively worker coops comes more so from the classical laborists such as Proudhon.

      @general