What the World's Largest Cooperative Business Can Teach Americans

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In this part of the episode, Laura talks with members of the Democracy Collaborative and California's Beneficial State Bank about how the model of solidarity economics they're learning about in Spain could be practiced in the United States. In Barcelona, Laura speaks with two of the coop experts leading the charge to democratize the city's economy.
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[@o0Avalon0o]

I'm glad to see co-ops getting more positive attention. We have local grocery co-ops that have fresh produce & the best customer service I've experienced in my entire life.

[@leosammallahti239]

Mondragon is not the world's largest cooperative, it's the world's largest worker owned cooperative. The largest cooperative in the world is Credit Agricole, a french consumer owned cooperative bank. In the US, there are also many cooperatives larger than Mondragon; such as REI (owned by consumers) and ACE Hardware (owned by stores that do joint-purchasing).

[@hitesh11111]

Thanks a lot for this report ✌️✌️👍👍💐

[@attaje]

Hi. Please do an update on these cooperatives

[@AtchisonStory]

Thank you.

[@silrana7166]

Wonderfully informative video! I learned so much - thank you Laura! Keep doing what you do! Here’s to the changemakers! 🔥🍀🌱✨👏🏽👏🏽🌿💕🌙🍀🌱✨💖

[@coopsnz1]

Corporaton don't keep 50% net profit after all expenses and government takes there share of the pie. In Europe and Australia net profit for a Corporaton is far worse

[@greenleafyman1028]

If corporations don't keep 50% of their profit. Then, they will not ask for bailout especially the big bank corporations if something wrong is happening.

[@coopsnz1]

Co - op = higher price for consumers, since net profit will be worse . More consumers will buy from a franchise a small and medium businesses owners where it cheaper

[@Taylordessalines]

😂😂😂

[@greenleafyman1028]

It was the opposite. Corporations tend to inflate price due to pressure from greedy investors. They will do all the shit they could do just to make an abnormally huge profit. Co-op in the other hand has no pressure in making a huge profit, their goal is just to survive and serve customers right.

[@tajs476]

You have a slight misunderstanding I feel because yes co-ops are not for profit that doesn't mean it drives up high prices. With normal private businesses a profit must be made because the owner/s have to use that to live. A co-op doesn't, it just has to pay employees which is a business expense just like any other private business so actually co-ops can just break even and run fine and if they do make profits then they will usually end up invest more back into the business compared to other private businesses. Co-ops can afford to drop their prices when we are in a recession, other private businesses can't.

[@coopsnz1]

@@tajs476 the government pushes up business cost , why charge consumers more dickhead communist

[@coopsnz1]

@@tajs476 what vat tax 20% & excise taxes profit to government not business