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It’s beyond time to reimagine the workplace

Given the global nature of labor, as well as the ability to envision new ways of working the only barrier to these changes are entrenched powers

The only viable and ethical pathway I see going forward is re-organizing globally as cooperatives and union workplaces. I see no other way to rebalance our economic system to prioritize the growth of everybody.

However, this has always been the most existential, largest fight in human history, and that means that individuals as laborers need to actively collectivize

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You’re free to try those out for yourself just don’t go trying to force everyone else into it. There are much bigger barriers to a global workforce though like timezones and language.

I’m sorry, but I fully disagree

Haven’t capitalists forced their system, to be the default pathway for all of us via regulatory capture?

I am literally forming a cooperative right now, and it is insanely hard to find legal experts, lawyers, funding, or anything that would be trivially easy in a capitalistic fashion.

The legal structure of the US at least, does not understand the concept of non-stock organizations. Why? Because there is a demand for legal control that is not diffuse such that the government through private networks can control the way in which capital is allocated and work is done.

What you call forcing sounds more like legal precedent established slowly over a long history of commercial law. Forming a coop is not illegal it’s just unusual. The more people that do it the more the law and the legal profession will accommodate it.

The whole point of it is that only works if everyone does it because it gives people leverage. If people are replicable then there is obviously none, unless everyone agrees to bargain collectively.

One cannot dam a river by leaving a few meters open because someone likes to fish there. Either he gives it up, or the entire town continues to flood.

Take your totalitarianism somewhere else, I’m not buying.

I don't think relatively overpaid US developers and relatively underpaid foreign developers have aligned interests.

I believe they do they both want better working conditions and they don’t control them

The fact that there’s often a large difference between them is certainly a problem and needs to be accounted for.

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