[NetBehaviour] Links - Anyone members of coops?

[Rob Myers]

On 2019-04-28 7:21 a.m., Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote:
> Thanks Rob,
> Full of great nuggets as always
>
>     Past, Present, Future: From Co-ops to Cryptonetworks -
> 
>     https://a16z.com/2019/03/02/cooperatives-cryptonetworks/
> 
> Coops seem to be on the upsurge.

Yes. I assume it's because of this ;-) -

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/feb/15/tories-cooperatives-osborne

> I'd be interested to know whether people here are already members of
> coops as workers or customers and if so why?

I'm a member of a housing co-op because it's the only way to afford to
live where I do.

The people are mostly lovely, as are their dogs. I was very wary of
joining a co-op but after a couple of years it seems that The System
Mostly Works and there have been no suddenly disastrous measures adopted
at meetings (although the minor missteps always have the potential to
add up faster than I think people realize). It doesn't seem like a
template for a scalable or efficient form of socialism though.

- Rob.