K. Cooperative Economy
In all our past discussions, one thing we have not mentioned is another form of economy called the Cooperative economy. Amul is one of the best examples of the cooperative economy. In this economy, individuals take care of the core processing of the raw materials, and then the production is taken care of by the system. The finance is managed within the cooperative groups.
Amul is one of the largest milk-based companies in the world, which was the outcome of India’s white revolution by Verghese Kurien. Households maintain a cow, collected milk, and deposit milk every day to the collection centers, which will be brought into the central production zone, processed, packaged, and would go to distribution centers, from which the milk packets will be distributed throughout the country. The money will then be rotated within the cooperative groups, facilitating better health for the cows, and the people, research and development of new equipment and processes, and product innovation.
From pickles to papads, to agro products, India has long had the tradition of a cooperative economy. This has a fundamental strength of human interdependency and social connections.
However, the urban population in particular, and the overall population to a degree today have been pushed towards social anxiety, and social interaction skills today are not even close to 10% of what this has been traditionally. Besides technology sector itself if dehumanizing and desocializing. Therefore cooperative economy will always be impossible in technology sectors.
People would collaborate,(like NVidia providing chips for AI), but this collaboration will be monetary, and not based on key human emotions that run and fuel the cooperative economy.
Freelancers, Companies, Creators, Corporations, Employees, and everyone will collaborate today for money and profit and not cooperate for any human values like emotions. As money is controlled by the capitalists, and interactions by technology, Capitalists will decide the form of collaboration and no cooperation would be possible.
