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In reply to the discussion: Why your job sucks: Sub shop employees fired two days before Christmas. [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)The means of destruction of the ownership caste that is immediately available to the working class is cooperativism. Learn from the employee-owned collectives of pre-revolution Spain...it worked so well, the fat-cats here paid the fascists there to kill it before it caught on here.
If the employees can do it better and the employers can't do it at all, pool resources and become the competition...coffeehouse people have known this for ages, the best training ground for opposing the 'bux...is the 'bux. Let them train you for 2-3 years, then leave, use your SIP and FutureRoast (Profit-sharing and stock options) to start an indie that does it better.
(It helps that for a major corporation, Starbucks actually sucks at coffee and has a weak business model. The profits of a location go up 300% if you have a full kitchen or a liquor license. The only advantage they reap is bulk purchasing and merchandising deals.)