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  1. We're trying to improving working conditions and pay.

  2. We're trying to reduce the numbers of hours a person has to work.

  3. We talk about the end of paid work being mandatory for survival.

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[โ€“] jlou@mastodon.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

ESOPs in the US by default work something like that. The author is definitely not advocating that. He has a similar critique of American ESOPs in this work: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/102452

The author advocates 1 worker 1 vote (or equal voice if we are talking more sophisticated voting systems like quadratic voting). He is definitely speaking from a more democratic tradition

[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh! Well that's definitely better than what I thought he was advocating.

But then... why not call it worker ownership? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] jlou@mastodon.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is strange to me as well. He normally talks about abolishing the employer-employee relationship in favor of democratic worker membership in the firm. I speculate that it has to do with trying to explain it to a more general audience