John Hasler wrote: > re-inventing the cooperative > re-inventing the barter club.
Yes, both cooperatives and barter clubs must be reinvented and brought together in alignment. Cooperatives fail to overtake Capitalism partly because they refuse to allow their members real co-ownership and the natural ROI of Product that follows, and so they perpetually sell the Product back to the very people that they pretend are it's owners, concentrating ownership into the hands of the few as Profits are doled out in arbitrary ways instead of being treated as the Payer's Investment. Barter clubs fail because they try to trade the Product *after* production, and the owners of the Means of Production are the Workers instead of the Consumers, and so they suffer the "Simultaneous coincidence of wants" - where the owner of Apples is trying to trade with the owner of Oranges. Barter of Work (not Products) must happen *before* production so those goods and services are pre-allocated to the persons who needs them (the Consumer) by virtue of the Consumers co-owning the Means of Production for the purpose of receiving the Product as ROI, and then swapping commitments to Work (operate those MoP) on behalf of others co-owners. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
