Earning enough money to live on is a skill. As is making good decisions collaboratively, defusing conflict, and learning how to work according to your values. Sometimes you learn these things on purpose, and sometimes you only acquire them by making mistakes.
We’ve had difficult years and good ones. And the good ones were usually built on the difficult ones.
The thing that nobody tells you about starting a co-op is that being cooperative is the best and the worst thing about it. Flat hierarchies don’t magically remove conflict – they just mean that nobody else will resolve it for you. Over time, you learn when to sit in discomfort and when to ask for help. You realise that “shall we start a co-op?” was actually a question with ten years of homework attached…
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