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Few doctors in other parts of the rich world earn what they could in the US. Likewise high-level management, IT, etc. Yet they are not clamoring to migrate to the US in large numbers.Mondragon is big enough in Spain that it is hardly at this point reliant on some kind of small-scale or even regional Basque solidarity. In any case, Basques are hardly a monolithic group who all weirdly are sympathetic to worker-owned cooperatives.Mondragon should be seen as an inspiration, one with a lot of practical experience, on possibilities and pitfalls. A lot of the skepticism I'm reading hear sounds like excuses and learned helplessness from living in the admittedly difficult circumstances of the US political and corporate climate. Weird that people from what's still a can-do culture are so invested in "no we can't ".

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Zyxomma here. I'm behind on my reading (I waited for the library to have the book for me), but I'm loving it. The ideas are everywhere. The Wired article is great. I'm still waiting for my island (Manhattan) to be made ready for the next Frankenstorm Sandy. We need engineers!

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