What if employees co-owned the business where they work?

Is shittier than you think. We have certificates that are shittier shares that have harsh rules. Like you can only buy or sell in one month a year, unless you get fired the company has to buy them back for the last going rate.

It was nice when people could buy in for cents. A lot of long timers have quite a nice chunk of change that they can't get rid of because there are no people wanting to buy at close to 50 bucks a certificate. You are also required to have certain amount of shares if you want to get into management. And the CEO owns most of it anyway.