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I worked for a cooperative once. It had its upsides. But it eventually lost steam because of the diffusion of responsibility. At its peak it had a strong core council of 5-7 official members looking after it and it flourished. But it was somewhat of a labor of love and over time they had kids, moved away, etc and eventually there just weren’t enough committed core people to keep it going.
A small business generally has one person who is ready to do absolutely whatever it takes to make it a success. This can be game changing. All their skin is in the game. If they have to skip a paycheck they do. If they have to work all night they do.
You know, a dictator, as you call them -_-
And if you work at a company and the leadership becomes burdened with other life events? They delegate management to someone whose job it is to keep things running smoothly.
Co-ops can work that way too lol, there's a co-op in Spain with 75,000 employees.
TL;DR people forget that like 90% of businesses fail, of fucking course co-ops are no different
Noo! But you see, when communard syndicalist cooperatives fail they expose the inherent contradictions within socialism itself!!!