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We Should Own the Economy

Stop pretending billionaires built the future
Workers did.
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Elle Griffin
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By all means, let private equity save capitalism
We should get Wall Street involved too.
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Elle Griffin
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No, KKR is not “equity washing”
Contra Katie Boland on the private equity company’s employee-ownership model.
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Elle Griffin
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How Silicon Valley got rich
And how everyone else can get rich too.
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Elle Griffin
12
Who should control AI?
Nonprofits aren't our only option.
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Elle Griffin
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120 million employee-owners in one generation
We have a moonshot opportunity to make the bottom half richer. Here's how we take it.
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Elle Griffin
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If you have a social mission, go into business
An interview with Frederick Freundlich about working at Mondragon, participating in a cooperative, and building social companies.
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Elle Griffin
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Fred Freundlich
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Companies are the new City-States
That’s why we need to build better ones.
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Elle Griffin
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The Cooperatist Manifesto that inspired Mondragon
Father José María Arizmendiarrieta didn’t just imagine a better economic system, he built it.
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Elle Griffin
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Mondragon as the new City-State
This cooperative could be its own country.
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Elle Griffin
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Founders can get much richer by selling to employees
This is how we create a wave of employee ownership.
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Elle Griffin
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Every company should be owned by its employees
Central States Manufacturing as a model for exiting to employee-ownership.
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Elle Griffin
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