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I think you're missing the point, actually..
( I'm autistic, & simply don't buy that ideology is ever going to make a good world, communist, fascist, corporatist, moneyarchist, religion-regime, any of them )
There is a fundamental problem in human economies, in that it is initiative which starts companies ( obviously ) & if initiative is allowed to concentrate wealth/rights/privilege, it will, until you don't have civilrights, anymore.
Therefore, there needs to be a kind of civil-harnessing..
At the other end, collectivism snuffs innovation & diversity & initiative, fairly automatically..
The root-problem is that BOTH are needed, but the economy has to somehow cultivate individual-initiative & group-initiative ( which work differently ) AND give the good innovators ( not the criminal ones ) both freedom & leverage & resources to get their contribution going, which is something that collectivity tends to snuff..
Another misframing is that monopolies shouldn't even be allowed in the 1st place, because they are, in the long-term, economic hostage-takers, or economic suicide ( a country putting all its eggs in a single basket, & pretending that that'll work forever ).
The correct policy is simply to use the tax-system to make it more costly to have fewer competitors, such that there is an optimal number of competitors in any industry, & they are actually competing.
That makes it less-profitable to extinguish your competitors through machiavellianism, see? The fewer competitors, the higher the tax rate.. suppressing monopoly, rather than accommodating it, & then having the problems it created, & then having fights about how to mitigate those problems..
Do understand that I think worker-owned business is the ideal configuration, but it has to be earned-place, not just inertia, institution, or seniority that grants ownership, it has to be contribution ( "Slicing Pie Handbook" is the best book for the concept, for startups: how to allocate shares/equity in the startup ).
I've heard about .. in the Basque region, .. cooperatives .. it takes years to earn a share in the company, and the loyalty AND drive are both excellent, & the companies were robust & did well..
That's the right sort of thing.
No "you exist, therefore you have institution-rights, but no responsibility/accountability, because our institutionality/union/class/wealth prevents that" .. kind of idiocy..
Rather, real earning-of-equity..
interesting..
I just realized that this makes-obvious that people with no interest in earning equity, they only want to do the minimum, get paid, & go do non-work things .. are incompatible with that kind of company/operation,
therefore there HAVE to be 2 ( or more ) different phases of the economy: companies with worker-equity & companies where nobody is invested in the company except the owners/managers, because that's an actual significant-portion of the population's mode..
that makes it .. more difficult to find an optimal single-set-of-rules for an economy, because the motivations don't mesh..
So, apparently a set-of-rules is required for each system-of-motivations?
looks like it..
interesting..
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Are you a market socialist by all means?