Ramsey Nasser on Nostr: when talking about coops i sometimes get asked "but what if someone takes advantage ...

when talking about coops i sometimes get asked "but what if someone takes advantage of the system?" almost like a checkmate...

the simple response is that there are mechanisms to deal with abuse and bad actors. but also: this issue isnt unique to cooperatives. what do we do we do if someone takes advantage *right now* of the system we already have?

we reward it. we call them a "boss" and allocate them more resources than others. we give them a better life, multiple homes, better education for their children. we give them more medical care and make sure they live as long as possible. we put them on the cover of magazines and make movies about their lives. we raise kids to hold them up as heroes and aspire to be like them. we make them into "presidents" and "kings" and give them unlimited power to hurt maim and kill. we fucking reward it.

coops and anti-hierarchical organizing are not oblivious to abuse, theyre designed pretty explicitly to counteract it and work towards true egalitarianism. and what we have now *explicitly celebrates and rewards sociopathy* so anyone genuinely concerned about this should be a fucking anarchist.