My region is home to the world’s largest worker cooperative, Mondragon Corporation. Do you think worker cooperatives are useful to us? Why aren’t they more widespread? Could their growth be facilitated by new technologies like the Internet or Blockchain?
This. Even if everyone involved is a dedicated incorruptible socialist, a co-op can’t grow beyond a very local level because it’s unable to compete with enormous companies who can use their superior supply chains to temporarily lower their massively inflated prices and push you out of the market (among other scummy tactics); unfortunately, most people living in capitalist countries aren’t able/willing to pay significantly more for an ethical option (especially since there’s no guarantee from the buyer’s perspective that it actually is ethical, similar to the existing “ethical” brands). You can’t win against the capitalists when they make all the rules. Revolution is the only way