@kaptainwalcott@mastodon.social Then you have a very different notion to co-op... to me a co-op is simply a company where the workers are automatically the business...

There is nothing inherent in that to suggest they will be ethical, or try to see without a markup, or to be the cheapest. People, just like the corperations they run, want the most they can get for themselves usually (assuming it isnt illegal or extreme).

When bobby sells susie his used car he doesnt give her half off (usually) just cause he can.

The truth is a co-op will just like any company be just as willing to exploit and make a profit so long as the people being exploited arent its own workers/owners.

Now you can define co-op legally in other ways I suppose. But thats not what i think of when i think of a co-op.