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		kortilla 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO ... Worker owned coops are not socialist unless the government forces it.

freedomben 22 days ago | [–]

That is true, but if all business are worker owned Co-ops then it has to be forced

tsimionescu 22 days ago | [–]

Worker-owned co-ops is the basic idea of socialism (that is what "workers owning the means of productions" means in modern language).

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