You had a lot of sources in this post. Half of them are only about ownership, because that’s easy to measure. Do you believe them? If not, why cite them? If so, then why not talk about mere ownership?
But the other half are even less believable because control isn’t measureable. Good governance is good. But how can you even classify governance as democratic? Are the Southwest town halls democratic? Or are they classified as democratic because the writer like the company?
Your previous post mentioned a lot of pitfalls, but I don’t think the United example fell into any of them. And I don’t think they are important. Most employee stock is voting shares, but there are so few votes it hardly matters. What is important the large number of small decisions.
No, ownership is not the same, I explicitly said so in a previous post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7bqzFLqEoz44y6C6o/why-giving-workers-stocks-isn-t-enough-and-what-co-ops-get
You had a lot of sources in this post. Half of them are only about ownership, because that’s easy to measure. Do you believe them? If not, why cite them? If so, then why not talk about mere ownership?
But the other half are even less believable because control isn’t measureable. Good governance is good. But how can you even classify governance as democratic? Are the Southwest town halls democratic? Or are they classified as democratic because the writer like the company?
Your previous post mentioned a lot of pitfalls, but I don’t think the United example fell into any of them. And I don’t think they are important. Most employee stock is voting shares, but there are so few votes it hardly matters. What is important the large number of small decisions.