Worker co-ops are scorned here? I think they just don’t come up much due to the nature of the industry.
Like all [citation needed] nerds I consumed a ridiculous amount of fantasy fiction growing up, and think programming is as close to magic as we’ll ever get in the real world. If somebody made a “Programmers Guild” in the style of a wizard’s guild, who among us wouldn’t join such a thing?
> If somebody made a “Programmers Guild” in the style of a wizard’s guild, who among us wouldn’t join such a thing?
HN is the wizard's guild.
I sort of assumed there was a wizard message board, that’s why they spend so much time gazing into their crystal balls.
Yes. HN is a western, liberal, and capitalist hive mind essentially. Or to put it another way, it is for the status quo, more or less. Things like coops are naturally going to not be too well received in such a place.
I’ve seen co-ops come up in a couple threads. Usually I see interest, not a ton of direct experience, sometimes a little bit of skepticism of the idea, but not a ton. Here’s an example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42748394
Now, you can find some negative reception I’m sure of you look hard enough, but generally the reception ranges from “a little experience” to “totally naive but curious.”
Yes they get criticized as communist idealism and without upside for people to start