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Scenario

Why collective action sometimes just redistributes powerlessness

The cooperative I joined was supposed to give us bargaining power but the middlemen just found new ways to extract profits and now we have more meetings and the same income.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Organizational solutions can be co-opted or circumvented by existing power structures.

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Zera
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