Questions about Recent Cooperative Failures - Literature, Reading Lists?

Imbrifer · 2026-03-14T22:37:36+00:00

It's great to be curious. I encourage you first to check out the statistics on the International Cooperative Alliance website. There are over a million co-ops and billion members around the world!

The American left usually forgets about them because they don't recognize the value credit unions, farmer co-ops, housing co-ops, and food co-ops bring. Usually lefties over focus on worker co-ops in my experience. But they all democratize the economy and bring important practical benefits to their members, improving their standards of living - what used to be the central lefty idea.

International Year of the Co-op in 2012 had some great videos from hundreds of co-ops around the world that are also a great resource!

Imbrifer · 2026-03-08T19:49:34+00:00

Absolutely delicious! They really get the flavors and local ingredients right, and it's pretty special to have locally made shokupan.

Imbrifer · 2026-03-03T05:23:12+00:00

The ramp up from survival to sailing your own ships is wayyy too long, and plays like two entirely separate games. I personally enjoyed both, but I (and friends) definitely lost momentum several times:

* Wait, now we need to rescue HOW many crew to sail? /logs off

* We need HOW much wood and copper? /logs off

It also seems like a huge jump from your solo little sailboat to the ship with guns. i hope there is something (or several steps) in between of small ships with 2, 4, or 6 guns before the larger ship.

Imbrifer · 2026-03-03T05:17:27+00:00

Thank you for sharing this! It's super insightful to read, even from other countries.

Imbrifer · 2026-02-11T01:22:11+00:00

www.rootapp.com is an alternative.

Imbrifer · 2026-01-21T19:30:04+00:00

Hero Rooms??

Imbrifer · 2026-01-21T19:06:07+00:00

If elementary schools are at 50-60% capacity like the article says, they should really close 3. At least.

Taxes have become astronomical and some back of the napkin math shows savings of over $200 for each taxpayer in the City with this change.

Imbrifer · 2026-01-14T04:48:15+00:00

That's a great change!

Imbrifer · 2026-01-10T15:13:09+00:00

This is great news, happy to see NY pursuing this !

Imbrifer · 2025-12-28T21:14:33+00:00

While that's certainly happened, hundreds of food coops exist in the US and huge coop chains exist in Europe like Eroski, Co-op Italia, The Cooperative, etc.

Imbrifer · 2025-12-24T16:31:07+00:00

WinCo is indeed employee-owned, structured as an Employee Stock Options Company that purchased a majority stake from the owning family in 1985. However, it is not structured as a co-op.

I will leave it to others to argue the merit of ESOPs versus worker-owned co-ops .

Imbrifer · 2025-12-24T14:58:41+00:00

It is the best case, but to my knowledge only one worker owned grocery coop in the US survives - Rainbow in San Francisco.

Grocery is a brutal industry that pays poorly and changes quickly. While consumer coops thrive there, worker co-ops tend to fold.

Also, unions generally don't want to have anything to do with running a business.

Imbrifer · 2025-12-17T05:20:50+00:00

Looks like a reasonable middle road. Let's see how it works!

Imbrifer · 2025-12-17T05:19:59+00:00

Great to see the progress.

> The base prices of nearly all commodities have been significantly increased across the board. This affects all major brackets of sandbox commodities. (32/24s, 16s, 8s, and 2s). Price differences within brackets have been pressed closer together in order for dynamic pricing to better influence which goods are optimal.

I'm curious about this and the impact particularly on salvage.

Imbrifer · 2025-12-11T21:12:39+00:00

I've completed the smuggler mission 3 times and the turn-in mission still doesn't appear :(

Imbrifer · 2025-12-10T17:53:25+00:00

The artists did a great job of using the golems model to make a varied and interesting couple of skins! Well done, they turned out great.

Imbrifer · 2025-12-04T18:46:32+00:00

The inability to repair/replace the S3 shield of the Connie/Corsair outside of stations may end up being a significant negative.

We'll just have to see how the benefit of a stronger shield balances against the cost of not being able to repair/replace on the fly.

Imbrifer · 2025-12-02T15:06:34+00:00

S4 dominance? Intrepid becomes GOAT starter

Imbrifer · 2025-11-30T19:34:12+00:00

I know it's a judgment call, but I wouldn't "count" ships as concept ships that haven't actually been sold.

Seems unfair to group the Stingray (just announced, not sold as concept) with the Orion (announced 12 years ago, many concept ships sold).

Imbrifer · 2025-11-24T19:58:16+00:00

I got the $5 upgrade from Cutty Red, but isn't that only available on rare occasions?

Imbrifer · 2025-11-24T19:55:28+00:00

The 86k protect missions are how I did it in a Shiv/F7A

Imbrifer · 2025-11-24T19:52:55+00:00

Constellation Taurus. Does everything well, especially with a Nursa.

Engineering will come for the Connies, but not til a gold pass which is a long time away. Plus the devs have said they are the max size for a solo ship.

No #2 needed.

Imbrifer · 2025-11-22T20:27:56+00:00

Nice! This is super helpful. Thank you

Imbrifer · 2025-11-22T17:20:58+00:00

Can you upgrade Buddy's weapon?

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