You can, but that doesn't help unless you're able to get everyone in town to be a part of it, because you risk being undercut by other salons. You're ultimately negotiating with the public, not your employer.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
That’s not entirely true. If it was true then no cooperative would ever exist so long as someone magically could undercut you.
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Replying to @ladyattis @arthur_affect
Oh, I mean they definitely can exist, but they're just a way of organizing a business, not protecting wages/income. They may or may not be efficient in that regard, but it's not like collective bargaining.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
I don’t think efficiency is important either. Ultimately this comes down to breaking the system itself rather than keeping up half measures which regularly are hijacked by capitalists.
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Replying to @ladyattis @arthur_affect
Efficiency is important if it's your bottom line! Especially for a professional business like a salon, that's really just a general partnership as much as a worker collective. Call it whatever you want, but they want to make the most money.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
What if I told you if you got enough and you’re satisfied with what you got that efficiency doesn’t factor into that?
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I’m not trying to be snarky but that’s just how I see it. A cooperative doesn’t have to follow norms of a capitalist firm.
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Replying to @ladyattis @mssilverstein
Until they have to compete with another business in the same field for dollars from customers who don't give a shit about their ideals and just want the lowest prices for the best service
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Your logic seems to be “well capitalists exist so we have to do as they do and use the state to do half ass measures which they can readily roll back with lobbyists next election”
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I mean, no, I'm saying that so-called "rent-seeking" measures are generally perceived by free-marketeers as "anti-capitalist" and this is a good thing when used to protect the right people
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