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MohRokTah

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24. Cooperatives are fine in their place.

Sun May 11, 2014, 12:45 AM

May 2014

They have to compete in the market place, though. If they cannot compete, they go broke.

I'm unwilling to force cooperatives, though. It has to be a free market economy. A free market of ideas. If your cooperaties are the most efficient model, they will usurp all other models. If not, they will not.

Theoretically, employee owned companies that do not have to pay investors dividends and do not have the quarter over quarter expectations of growth should be able to undercut every publicly traded corporation in the market. In practice, not so much.

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