• doingless@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I hear this all the time but the reality is probably a third of us work at places that are barely surviving. Imagine if all of those people were suddenly unemployed.

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      10 months ago

      If companies stealing the value of people’s labor shut down, opening the way for new employee owned companies, that would be fantastic

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        10 months ago

        This is great in theory but there are plenty of companies that struggle to succeed in the current realities of real estate costs, labor costs, regulatory compliance expenses etc. Not every organization has people leeching all of the profits, and even many good ones are struggling to stay afloat right now. Just because a company is employee owned doesn’t guarantee profits to share.