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coxmichael
·3 года назад·discuss
I’d wager that’s more to do with raising finance than organisational productivity, but I’m not aware of any actual research on something of that scale or even how to accurately study those effects without it turning into more of a qualitative theory.

Still, it’s quite an interesting possibility worth pursuing in my opinion. (Full disclosure, I work for a small nominally employee-owned company, and have mixed thoughts about how it works in practice).
coxmichael
·3 года назад·discuss
I’m not convinced this is inevitable, but it certainly feels it within the current system. Co-ops exist and can be very successful.

Hierarchies can be time-limited, or democratically limited, it just depends on the legal and organisational framework.
coxmichael
·3 года назад·discuss
It’s harder to get finance as a co-operative, so it’s hardly a fair competition.

Also, in most studies, co-ops and employee ownership models do actually end up being more profitable and sustainable in the long term [0, 1].

[0] Page 23+ in this UK government review on employee ownership: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[1] ONS report showing the rate of survival of cooperatives in the UK after five years was 80 percent compared with only 41 percent for all other enterprises https://www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/2020-10/co-operative...
coxmichael
·3 года назад·discuss
Thanks, I’ll give it a read
coxmichael
·3 года назад·discuss
> Math is an epistemological tool to abstract the causality of existence into a simplified structure

The mathematics to accurately predict or relay reality is still complex enough that it’s often beyond us. You’re right in that it’s a tool to understand, but if we’re using simplified math for simplified reality, is it really epistemological?

As you suggest, math isn’t outside the boundary of philosophic investigation. It never was in the past, and I don’t think better approximations change that calculation.
coxmichael
·3 года назад·discuss
Nice site/typography!

The bold and italics look like they’re being applied in browser though, rather than specific faces.

And it’s calling out for some small caps for acronyms like ‘HTML’.

Nice to see sites with this style, it’s very rare nowadays!
coxmichael
·3 года назад·discuss
Roads were often made of wood blocks, so maybe that’s an option here too?
coxmichael
·3 года назад·discuss
In more political phraseology, that would be tyranny rather than anarchy (that is, without hierarchy)