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[[student cooperative]]s may be able to bridge the conceptual impasse between [[worker cooperative]]s and consumer cooperatives. Such cooperative institutions as student cooperatives remove the association between cooperatives and economic roles by centering on the necessity of continual education and research as a precursor to economic roles. | [[student cooperative]]s may be able to bridge the conceptual impasse between [[worker cooperative]]s and consumer cooperatives. Such cooperative institutions as student cooperatives remove the association between cooperatives and economic roles by centering on the necessity of continual education and research as a precursor to economic roles. | ||
| − | In other words, the distinction between a worker who is both employed and co-owning of sales and profits within the cooperative and a consumer who is employed outside the cooperative in which s/he is co-owning of sales and profits is blurred by the fact that, in order to qualify for employment within or without the cooperative in which they are member-owners, they must first be educated in the skills of the trades for which they're employed. | + | In other words, the distinction between a worker who is both employed and co-owning of sales and profits within the cooperative and a consumer who is employed outside the cooperative in which s/he is co-owning of sales and profits is blurred by the fact that, in order to qualify for employment within or without the cooperative in which they are member-owners, they must first be educated in the skills of the trades for which they're employed. When their own jobs are obsoleted by technology or are outsourced to cheaper labor in other, poorer countries, the affected workers are compelled by circumstances and advertising to "go back to school" to learn newer, more popular skills to maintain their own incomes. |
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| + | * Hence, if workers and consumers are both ultimately compelled to become perpetual students of the most recently-demanded trades and expertises in order to sustain their incomes and lifestyles, then why not rename consumer cooperatives as student cooperatives to reflect this fact? | ||
| + | * If one is never too old or too far gone to learn, then why not make educational resources freely and perpetually accessible and available to all workers and consumers? | ||
| + | * Why not encourage the flourishing of [[wikipedia:Business and employment co-operative|Business and employment co-operative]]s from within student initiatives, so as to envelop an entire cycle of economic activity within the cooperative and its subsidiaries? | ||
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Revision as of 02:00, 7 August 2009
student cooperatives may be able to bridge the conceptual impasse between worker cooperatives and consumer cooperatives. Such cooperative institutions as student cooperatives remove the association between cooperatives and economic roles by centering on the necessity of continual education and research as a precursor to economic roles.
In other words, the distinction between a worker who is both employed and co-owning of sales and profits within the cooperative and a consumer who is employed outside the cooperative in which s/he is co-owning of sales and profits is blurred by the fact that, in order to qualify for employment within or without the cooperative in which they are member-owners, they must first be educated in the skills of the trades for which they're employed. When their own jobs are obsoleted by technology or are outsourced to cheaper labor in other, poorer countries, the affected workers are compelled by circumstances and advertising to "go back to school" to learn newer, more popular skills to maintain their own incomes.
- Hence, if workers and consumers are both ultimately compelled to become perpetual students of the most recently-demanded trades and expertises in order to sustain their incomes and lifestyles, then why not rename consumer cooperatives as student cooperatives to reflect this fact?
- If one is never too old or too far gone to learn, then why not make educational resources freely and perpetually accessible and available to all workers and consumers?
- Why not encourage the flourishing of Business and employment co-operatives from within student initiatives, so as to envelop an entire cycle of economic activity within the cooperative and its subsidiaries?
