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Unsurprisingly HN is full of people who are sure that this would be bad for society and that it should be up for the "market to decide" - because if co-ops were good they'd be more common, not like there's any societal context that could keep them from being more popular
I think it's very telling that the discussion is all just around giving employees share options in what is otherwise a typical top-down company, rather than discussing actual co-ownership and bringing democratic practises to the workplace.
It really doesn't seem to even occur to a lot of people that there are different ways to do this stuff