… where it’ll end, no one knows.
Do the recent stock market undulations make you yearn for a different type of stock?
A stock that can steadily transform the world for good and put a nice consistent dividend in your pocket. One whose value isn’t yanked around by fear or avarice. One whose value is linked to our collective ability to make the world more decent, trade more equitable and commerce more sustainable.
Me too.
At Equal Exchange, we’ve tried to avoid some of the avarice and fear by actually rewriting corporate structure, and developing a new business model. For example we have a fixed price share – no way to get too rich there, now way to and manipulate the company to get rich. It’s just not possible. And for accountability, every worker owner also invests their own money. Can’t say that about too many companies or non-profits.
What do you think? How many truly alternative stocks are there out there? How many will there be in five years?
This blog is about investing in Equal Exchange, cooperatives, and fair trade. It's both for the curious and for our current investment community. It's about how our coins, yours and mine, can forge our common wealth.
Co-ops and majority ownership by workers is the way to go.