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WV Theme... #48 ...individual<--->groupTHE COOPERATIVE, DECENTRALIZED SOCIETY ADVOCATE
I prefer cooperation to competition, since the latter can bring out the worst in people. I prefer locally controlled economic arrangements involving a mixture of cooperative, employee-owned, and private businesses. I like voluntary, democratic organizations in which people join hands in promoting community, common good, and self reliance. I prefer decentralized economic or government structures, since they can better respond to local needs. I dislike big, authoritarian, centralized corporate or government structures. Instead, I think that, while planning can involve a whole bioregion, power and decision making should diffuse down to the lowest level possible, ideally to community, neighborhood, individual -- and all would participate.
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WV Theme #48:The Cooperative, Decentralized Society Advocate--Characterization with Wikipedia Entries |
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| prefers co-operation to competition | likes worker or consumer owned businesses/ co-operatives |
| prefers decentralized economic or government structures | prefers decentrally planned economy |
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summary Wikipedia article: Co-operative Economics |
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