Require? Genuinely require? It seems to me the high cost comes from attempting to create profit margin. If the profit is basically eliminated, the person can have the high wage, and we can have the nice things.

> If the profit is basically eliminated, the person can have the high wage, and we can have the nice things.

Somehow, however, such Marxist implementations never deliver those nice things.

Co-ops are Marxist?

If so, wow, Marxist businesses are remarkably profitable, productive [1], and resilient [2]!

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/worker-cooperative...

[2] https://www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/2020-10/co-operative...

If they are so remarkably profitable, why aren't they pervasive?

Aren't they? The top 300 cooperatives apparently accounted for 2.2 trillion in turnover back in 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171022081215/http://monitor.co...

So go set one up, then!

And btw, none of the text in your cite says anything about 2.2 trillion in turnover.

Thanks, I'll need to update the link on wikipedia later, it was correct last week.

I have set up a co-op. It's going quite well.

Good luck with your co-op. I have no issue with people setting up co-ops in a free market.

You can set up marxist organizations in a free country. They're perfectly legal. They just cannot force people to join, or prevent people from leaving.

Yes, I think that tuitions need to come down as well.