yogthos

yogthos, 2 years ago

Laugh while you can.

yogthos, 2 years ago

The problem there is getting the initial seed funding. Investors put money into companies because they want to have control over the company, and they can’t do that with a cooperative. There is a systemic bias towards capitalist company structure because of that.

yogthos, 2 years ago

Unfortunately, it might also be the spring of fascism there.

yogthos, 2 years ago

The reality clearly demonstrates that investors don’t bother investing in coops. You’ve obviously never actually tried to get investors to invest in a coop.

yogthos, 2 years ago

I recommend learning a bit about the subject before arguing about it. Cooperatives don’t issue bonds because nobody is going to buy these bonds.

yogthos, 2 years ago

If you ever try starting a coop you’ll find out how hard it is to get investment in practice. It’s kind of hilarious that you think nobody thought of these obvious things to try before you.

yogthos, 2 years ago

What do you base your claim that this has not been tried in a convincing way on?

yogthos, 2 years ago

The reality is that it’s much more difficult to get the initial funding for a coop than a traditional company, and it’s not that lots of people haven’t been trying different approaches including the hare brained schemes you floated many times. The fact that you just keep repeating something that’s demonstrably false means that there’s no point continuing this discussion. Have a good day.

yogthos, 2 years ago

Again, you’re not the first person to think of this. In practice, it turns out that it’s much easier for traditional companies to secure funding under the financial capitalist system. That’s the world we live in. Lots of people are trying to run cooperatives in all kinds of different ways. In some cases, like Mondragon, they do manage to grow big, but in general systemic pressures favor capitalist structure.

yogthos, 2 years ago

It’s not like people choose to have a two hour commute.

yogthos, 2 years ago

I work remotely, so I’m not affected by this personally, but I recognize that other people just aren’t lucky enough to be able to choose a job that’s close and convenient. Some people simply don’t have a choice in the matter and they take the job they can get.

yogthos, 2 years ago

Imagine using straw man arguments when you have no actual point to make.

yogthos, 2 years ago

Everybody on the list should be prosecuted, why aren’t the democrats doing that?

yogthos, 2 years ago

you put so much work into your apologia there

yogthos, 2 years ago

Nothing is actually happening, and I don’t know what you think I’m wrong about. You’re just making up excuses for why nobody has been prosecuted so far. And if you think a bunch of democrats aren’t on that list then you’re as gullible as they get. All your oligarchs are the same and your country is an utter lawless shithole where the rich do whatever they want.

yogthos, 2 years ago

doing some projecting I see

yogthos, 2 years ago

Attacking the victim and defending the rapist is precisely what I’d expect from somebody like you.

yogthos, 2 years ago

There is plenty of collaborating evidence to her claims and what you think she had to gain from chuds like you making her life hell as result I have no idea. You’ve exposed yourself as an utter piece of human garbage here.

yogthos, 2 years ago

I mean the most obvious piece slate.com/…/video-tara-reade-mother-joe-biden-lar…I just love how you keep carrying water for this pedo, this is what he does in public when he’s on camera

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/52cc2126-eb99-4876-be7f-bd6026e3776a.jpeg

You’re deplorable.

yogthos, 2 years ago

He is a literal rapist, but people like you don’t want to acknowledge it because you have no morals. Go to your workplace and try touching shoulders like that on your coworkers, let me know how long before your rapist ass gets fired for sexual harassment.

yogthos, 2 years ago

Car batteries last for around 10-20 years, so don’t think that would work out.

yogthos, 2 years ago

Would probably be easier to go back to using animals at that point. You can make crude batteries without high tech manufacturing, but they’re going to have low energy density and likely gonna be made out of toxic stuff. So not ideal for vehicles.

yogthos, 2 years ago

Mad Max world has an unreasonably robust gasoline production infrastructure.