Would customers be treated badly and forced to overpay, if the owners of the company lived in the same community and had to face them and explain themselves?

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Would companies still externalize the costs onto the surrounding community, if the owners of the company lived in that community?

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Would workers still be exploited, if they owned the company?

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Would CEOs still get paid hundreds of times what workers are paid, if all companies were cooperatives?

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Would people have more money in their pockets to crowdfund companies or product development that they actually *want*, if all companies were cooperatives? Would corporate loans cease to be relevant?

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The stock market would cease to exist. Would the economy be more stable?

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