craig:
> The capitalist puts downward
> pressure on wages,while the employee controlled company puts
> upward pressureon them.
yep. the surplus in the employee controlled company is shared. the capitalist
acquires the surplus in the for-profit model. this process is autocatalytic in
capitalism: the more you acquire, the easier it becomes to acquire more: the
gravity of wealth.
the for-profit system concentrates wealth causing a top-heavy economic
imbalance that has to be corrected with war/depression every so often - to
level the playing field.
the not-for-profit system doesn't automatically concentrate wealth in fewer and
fewer hands. wealth is shared fairly between the workers that have created it,
and surplus wealth is reinvested in the organisation or community at large.
this reinvestment is the key to maintaining some sort of economic homeostasis -
a dynamic balance.
just as we can compost waste/excess so that the garden can continue to provide
us with food (without the need of external inputs), so returning excess/surplus
wealth back into the community ensures the continuity - the sustainability - of
that community (without it having to get into debt).
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