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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

Josh Davis's blog

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January 23, 2024

Doubts About "DAO Tooling"

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DAO tooling is a poor fit for co-ops (and everyone else too).

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February 27, 2023

The Blockchain is No Place to Build a Co-op

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DAOs have a fundamental flaw that make them inappropriate for cooperatives: they are written in code.

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September 7, 2022

An interesting conversation about Mondragon

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There are a lot of misconceptions in the US about the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation. A conversation happened online recently that highlighted some of those.

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November 12, 2021

Thinking as a Movement

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Thinking as a movement requires public conversations about where we do and do not agree with one another.

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May 26, 2021

A Very Funny Co-op Bill in California

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A bill in California would create a very strange kind of worker co-op federation.

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November 7, 2019

Against the Ecosystem

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Why the metaphor of a cooperative ecosystem should be changed to a metaphor of a cooperative organism.

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August 20, 2019

Don't Try to Develop a Co-op Until You do This

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It is important that non-profit cooperative developers democratize their own work places.

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September 30, 2017

A Log in Our Eye

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We need to think about how we approach and use leftist lingo in the cooperative movement.

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April 9, 2017

Effective Blessing Through Cooperation

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A story about how cooperation used to work.

January 29, 2017

The Difficult Teaching

December 28, 2016

The Essential and the Abstract

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September 4, 2016

Envisioning a Cooperative Retirement

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Imagining a multi-generational ecovillage.

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September 1, 2016

Some 401(k) Caveats

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July 10, 2016

On Doing Well, Part 2

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July 2, 2016

On Doing Well

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"Doing well by doing good" is an idiom that should be removed from our lexicon.

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May 12, 2016

Tunnel Vision in the Cooperative Movement

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Our socio-economic backgrounds effect how we see the world, and therefore how we interact with each other.