Forum Post: Demands? What about worldwide cooperativism?
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 20, 2011, 10:50 a.m. EST by THETRUTH
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A cooperative (also co-operative or co-op) is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit.[1] A cooperative is defined by the International Cooperative Alliance's Statement on the Cooperative Identity as "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise".[2] A cooperative may also be defined as a business owned and controlled equally by the people who use its services or by the people who work there. Various aspects regarding cooperative enterprise are the focus of study in the field of cooperative economics.
The Zeitgeist Movement is what you're talking about, basically.
Not being an economist or philosopher, I will venture to say that what I am leading to is more like an Intentional Community.
I mentioned this in another thread, but I think your idea links perfectly with the creation of housing coops, where people own the production facilities for building materials and build their own houses, available for free upon completion. After all, it IS possible to build a house in a week. Why should we pay for them for decades if that is the case?