Co-ops start small. If they are lucky whatever field they enter, whether a grocery store or a bakery, they develop techniques for making decisions and tracking communication.
These include personal check-in as the first item on the agenda. Making sure everyone gets a chance to speak before moving on and making decisions based on consensus as opposed to voting. But what happens to these methods when the scale of operations grows larger? What happens when a group is too big to meet at the same place and time? Because co-ops are committed to direct democracy it is tempting to keep the same methods in place regardless of scale. This article criticizes co-ops for not facing that different scales of operation require different methods.
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