jahashar

This is a real world issue actually!

This means we need accessible cities, and checking what we eat. And also calls for subsidizing electric bikes for everyone.

TIL: If you eat extra beef for the extra calories to cycle those kilometers you generate non-negligible CO2!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342009015_Fuelling_walking_and_cycling_human_powered_locomotion_is_associated_with_non-negligible_greenhouse_gas_emissions

Here's the 100 largest coops in the US: https://impact.ncb.coop/hubfs/Co-op%20100%202023%20Report%20-%20ADA.pdf

Combined more than 300 billion USD revenue. Not peanuts.

Here's a few networked coops with each more than 2 million members, from the nordics:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coop_amba

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kooperativa_F%C3%B6rbundet

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coop_Norge

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_Group

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OP_Financial_Group

Cooperatives do work wonders, unless they are purposefully destroyed with adversive regulation.

Also, employee stock options rock.

Actually - co-ops work wonderfully. Largest grocery chain in Finland (S-chain). Everywhere Scandinavia (COOP). UK. Rural America. Israel. Decades of success.

And many if not most software startups deal out shares. Great way to bind the blue collar workers.

It's the venture capital and just sometimes the grabby founders that cash out...