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Dr Slurm
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Posted - 2009.01.24 23:29:00 -
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What you describe isn't really a cooperative by definition, it's more of a leasing service.
If you would like to discuss specifics of a cooperative I am very knowledgeable and experienced with the worker varieties. I've worked at one (RL) for the past 5 years and have been on its Board of Directors. |
Dr Slurm
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Posted - 2009.01.24 23:49:00 -
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Well if your intent is to help new players a leasing service would be the opposite of that. Leasing services work by over extending the resources available to workers to make a profit off of them. The lease here is 20m monthly fee in return the player gets access to your resources, the BPO's. So as your player base (leasers) expands more people have access to the limited number of resources. This in turn stretches the resources while maximizing your profits. The right thing to do would be to keep reinvesting the profit into the corporation to keep expanding the resources. Unfortunately greed usually overcomes this.
A truly cooperative model would take investment from new players so they would own part of the company. This investment could also be work that they provide. As their equity builds they technically own a larger chunk of the cooperative. Then it is up to Board of Directors to retire equity by paying off the first people to invest.
My cooperative for example has a 15 year equity roll over plan.
There are many kinds of cooperatives though. What I've described is a worker cooperative. Another example would be a consumer cooperative where you gather together your resources to purchase things in bulk like minerals for instance. The basic premise though is people band together to form a democratically controlled group for their own benefit.
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Dr Slurm
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Posted - 2009.01.25 00:52:00 -
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If you're going to pursue the lease idea I would split it up into tiers. I suggest this mostly because access to an Orca BPO (as offered by Ricdic) should command a larger fee then say T1 frigs. I would imagine the newbs wouldn't have the resources to take advantage of this. Then as they build their resources they would move of the tiers of quality of BPO's. This wouldn't necessarily have to be limited to newbies.
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Dr Slurm
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Posted - 2009.01.25 16:55:00 -
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For the output idea you could have the client setup the contract when they start their manufacturing job. That way they are using their contract slots and pay the fees that go along with it. Then all the director/staff would have to do is verify they manufactured what they said and fill the contract. |
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