Every company should be owned by its employees
Every company should be owned by its employees
Central States Manufacturing as a model for employee-ownership.
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Or... What if we just stopped working? https://youtu.be/2i0RrGx_GrE
This is the Centerpoint strategy for maintaining the Houston electric grid
Haven't watched the video yet, will do somlatwr, but if no one worked, we would over amshort time literally return to the stone age.
Who would make for for all? Would we have to scour for our own food again, each on their own? There is a reason we do farming, it is MUCH more efficient. A hand full people can make grain, beef, flour, and bread for hundreds of thousands, if not millions. It liberates all those other people to work on other things and make society grow.
If we all do our own food then in no time growth will stagnate, loads of people will fail to make their own food and decide to get it from others, and since there is no police anymore either (they're busy making and finding their own food) there is no protection either.
We would to have time to keep up infrastructure. More fertilizer would mean that there wouldn't be enough food produced for everyone, the world would go back to about 2-3billion humans. In on itself not a bad thing, there are too many humans, but 5-6 billion humans starving to death sucks.
No more modern medicine, no ody is working anymore, remember? Sucks to be a diabetic, bye bye. If you're trans, you're outta luck, you got bigger fish to fry.
We CAN'T stop working, we'd die out. If that video means something else, then the title is wrong.
What we can do is redistribute wealth. Nobody should need to work two jobs and still not be able to meet rent, that is absurd.
I also haven't watched the video, but also allow me to weigh in with some stuff I've heard.
The way I've heard it is that if people stopped going to their jobs they would very quickly take up necessary and actually productive work required by them and their communities.
I've heard it more in the context of bullshit jobs. For instance if I didn't have a job to go to then of course I'd pitch in on real work, like working some rows at the local farms, or covering some shifts at the local shops.