The capitalist workplace is a dictatorial structure because the foundational hierarchy is a business owner who commands the workers and does not have to listen to or represent said employees, as well as having the capacity to penalize or outright fire workers without due process or oversight.
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"Dictatorial"
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What is your take on approach to Capitalism from a cooperative perspective like for example the Mondragon Corporation? I think there might be something in there worth considering...
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The workers do not have to do anything other than what they have vowed to do in the contract, and any command by the owner that surpasses that is illegal and must not be followed.
The business owner holds exactly as much power over their enterprise as their business model suggests, and is inherently restricted by the agreements they have made with their workers and other business owners, by the demands of the harsh free market competition and so on.
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Why must the business owner “absolutely” follow his or her designed contract, and what “negative consequences” will result from not abiding by them? Why can’t the business owner enforce the employee(s) to deviate from the contract, and where is illegality in such enforcement by the capitalist? How can the business owner be restricted by his or her own contracts when they hold the entire authority over them?
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The Mondragon Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based on the Rochdale Principles. At the end of 2014, it employed 74,117 people in 257 companies and organizations in four areas of activity: finance, industry, retail and knowledge, with the latter distinguishing Mondragon from other business groups.
Mondragon has demonstrated impressive resilience after the 2008 crisis and kept jobless levels in the Basque region to under half the national average. ( At the time it was nationally in excess of 25% and 53% among young people)
As equal co-owners of their workplaces, members enjoy job security together with individual capital holdings, equal sharing of profits on a proportionate basis and an equal ‘one-member one vote’ say in their governance. Remuneration within the cooperatives is egalitarian, with the highest rates payable other than in exceptional circumstances being no greater than six and a half times the lowest.
It had in 2015 revenues of about €12 billion and total assets around € 24 billions.
It not perfect mind you, what is, if we're honest... But It's flexible and resilient even if it still operates within a Market. I think there maybe something to learn here...
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This all comes down to the definition of a free market, which is the embodiment of capitalism: a free market is an economical platform on which individuals perform voluntary mutually consented on economical exchanges - and when we talk about capitalism, we talk about the system on which a free market already exists in its functional form, which implies that the consented terms are protected from being arbitrarily ignored or misinterpreted.
The exact protection mechanism can come in many shapes, and not all of them require the governmental intervention - but that is a different topic entirely. I personally favor the model in which corporations and individuals voluntarily, for their own interest, form alliances with the sole purpose of guaranteeing the fulfilment of contracts made between the members of the alliance; it is also worth noting that entities that violate contracts acquire a very negative reputation on a free market and are unlikely to remain competitive long-term, hence the free market naturally discourages and punishes such behavior.
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Well, usually when capitalism is mentioned, it also involves the government due to the fact that capitalism and democracy (an example like the US) go hand in hand to make a market economy which is what capitalism is. Thus, I see it fit to add in my point about federal restriction s, regulations, and requirments.
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Now capitalism is certainly hierarchical, but when you say dictatorial I think that has clear connotations of near absolute power to the authority figure. When we look at capitalism today in the countries we're from (presuming we're from the USA, Europe, etc) there are large restrictions placed on how business owners can operate by government. They have to offer certain terms in their employment, if they wish to fire someone they have to meet certain criteria, their are limits to what they can ask people to do, etc. They have disproportionate power over the employee, but the state constrains that power.
You do have to note though that these constraints aren't external to Capitalism - it could and has operated without them in the past. I don't consider the democratic system that Capitalism operates within in my country as part of Capitalism itself. You can think to existing poor sub-saharan African countries where people are paid so little that they can die of malnutrituion despite being in employment or in developed countries 100+ years ago when protections were much weaker and Capitalists were far more abusive to workers. Ironically the free market types who will be the first to try and defend capitalism are those who would bring out its very worse aspects.
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The Capitalist Workplace Is A Dictatorial Structure
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