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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What if we ended private ownership of businesses. I don't mean ending ownership of businesses, but that every business became publicly tradeable. No more private ownership of businesses.

There's something to be said for mandatory stock awards to all employees (with no contractor sub-contractor loopholes) calculated to enforce a controlling interest among current staff.

Of course, arguably, I just described a union with more steps.

Edit: I think this won't necessarily need to be mandatory, after current shareholders wise up that their current crop of CEO's aren't actually serving their interests.

But, if it works, there's an argument to be made for making something mandatory to set a baseline expectation for human decency.

Which I suppose amounts to crowd-sourcing to staff things not currently handled by OSHA.