> Implicit in this claim is the idea that somehow we need someone to own things. Why is that exactly?
Tragedy of the commons. When scarce resources are communally owned, they tend to get exploited even worse than when they're privately owned.
Tragedy of the commons. When scarce resources are communally owned, they tend to get exploited even worse than when they're privately owned.
Employee-owned cooperatives aren't communally owned, they're employee-owned (as the name indicates).
The resources, in this case, are the employees themselves. So you're claiming that employees will exploit themselves more than an employer would?