retiredaccount wrote at June 23, 2018 at 9:07 PM

You asked about business owners, and members of coops own it together. If you ask a question about business owners but discount one form of business owner, you won't get answers in the first place.

OKC wrote at June 23, 2018 at 9:08 PM

They're not business owners in any way.

retiredaccount wrote at June 23, 2018 at 9:09 PM

If they own it together, they're business owners. Or are all shareholders of corporations 'not businessowners', even if majority?

OKC wrote at June 23, 2018 at 9:11 PM (edited at June 23, 2018 at 9:12 PM)

They would be shareholders, not owners.

Unless they own the majority of shares like the Murdochs, which wouldn't happen with a co-op.

jadedctrl wrote at June 24, 2018 at 4:49 AM

From Wikipedia:

A worker cooperative, is a cooperative that is owned and self-managed by its workers.