I thought this was really fascinating. Not super applicable unless you have a stream I suppose.

I linked the thread, but the constraints that poster gave were:

• The route must connect exactly two metropolitan areas (no branching lines).
• The distance must be at least 150 miles and no more than 800 miles.
• You may include up to two intermediate stops, but they must lie naturally along the route.
• Assume realistic constraints (budget, terrain, political feasibility), but you don’t need exact cost estimates.

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If anything I could see it being useful to get people familiar with the process, but could also be useful within your job or association.

I like to point people to Mondragon as an example of how worker cooperatives can get big and compete with antidemocratic workplaces. I think we need that to build a sustainable society.

But Mondragon is in Spain, and there's a valid question why we don't see lots of large worker cooperatives if they're so great.

Obran is a cooperative holding company - they acquire and convert small/medium size businesses to be worker controlled. Not Mondragon yet but maybe in the future.

Political democracies have a hard time thriving when their economies are dominated by micro-kings who rule businesses. Worker cooperatives are one approach to achieving economic democracy, where workers own and control the business. Mondragon for me has been the go to example of an entity that's able to do this at a large scale.