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Cake day: June 29th, 2025

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  • Disclaimer I’m not from the states.

    Believing the Democratic Party will in anyway abolish or even threaten capitalism is laughable. Even the most “left” (I don’t like the left/right axis) politicians in America are at most social-democrats and are more likely to actually enact social liberal policies. The democrats will never pose an actual threat to capitalism.

    The republicans are much more enamored with the status quo, but the democrats won’t resolve the structural contradictions the USA (and the west) faces.
















  • If you look into what the “Mondragón route” is, you’ll understand the differences to the current system.

    To sum it up, Mondragón is a federation of worker owned/controlled enterprises/cooperatives. Due to this innovative ownership model democracy is intertwined in all decisions in the companies. Therefore, Jim (workers) gets a real say on how automation is leveraged.

    About the possible career change. Mondragón handles it quite gracefully in my opinion. They have internal recruitment that attempts to relocate “obsolete” workers to other parts of the federation, as to avoid severing work relations entirely. They also invested early on in internal capacity to teach themselves through their technical schools. This way the profit of the automation is paying for the education of the workers it replaced.