Cooperatives and alternative ownership structures are not being widely adopted despite their success because they are being gobbled up by larger companies—private equity and tech companies buy them out, not because they don't work but because there's no level playing field in an environment where large fish eat smaller fish

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Speaker

Yanis Varoufakis

Evidence Quote

why aren't there more companies copying that because they're being gobbled up...the large fish eats the smaller fish [32:42]

Source

Can we Fix Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis vs Gillian TettIntelligence Squared
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:33:04 PM

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