The City is currently updating the 2009-2014 Five-Year Strategic Business Plan. What projects/programs should the City focus on completing in the next five years (between 2016-2021)? The current plan...
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The City is currently updating the 2009-2014 Five-Year Strategic Business Plan. What projects/programs should the City focus on completing in the next five years (between 2016-2021)? The current plan is available on the city website under Home>Departments>Finance>Five-Year Strategic Business Plan
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Dec 2, 2016 by
Steve Furtado (5 points)
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The City is currently updating the 2009-2014 Five-Year Strategic Business Plan. What projects/programs should the City focus on completing in the next five years (between 2016-2021)? The current plan is available on the city website under Home>Departments>Finance>Five-Year Strategic Business Plan
The City of Richmond should promote and invest heavily in worker-owned cooperative enterprises. Given the tremendous failings of capitalism - the growing gap between the economic classes, the...
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The City of Richmond should promote and invest heavily in worker-owned cooperative enterprises. Given the tremendous failings of capitalism - the growing gap between the economic classes, the concentration of nearly all the country's wealth to the top 1%, people working harder yet receiving less, the lagging minimum wage when adjusted for inflation, unemployment statistics reported dishonestly - we need a better way. Workers that own their businesses would never vote to hand over the profits to a small number of board members. They would never deny themselves paid leave, or choose to send their jobs oversees, or any of the myriad, ridiculous decisions that put profits over people. I could write an entire book. Imagine a typical fast food worker. Whether there is a line out the door waiting for food, or a completely empty restaurant, they get the same miserable wage. What's the incentive? Shouldn't a worker be happy to have customers? Not when they never see a penny of the profits.
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Dec 24, 2016 by
James Madden (9 points)
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The City of Richmond should promote and invest heavily in worker-owned cooperative enterprises. Given the tremendous failings of capitalism - the growing gap between the economic classes, the concentration of nearly all the country's wealth to the top 1%, people working harder yet receiving less, the lagging minimum wage when adjusted for inflation, unemployment statistics reported dishonestly - we need a better way. Workers that own their businesses would never vote to hand over the profits to a small number of board members. They would never deny themselves paid leave, or choose to send their jobs oversees, or any of the myriad, ridiculous decisions that put profits over people. I could write an entire book. Imagine a typical fast food worker. Whether there is a line out the door waiting for food, or a completely empty restaurant, they get the same miserable wage. What's the incentive? Shouldn't a worker be happy to have customers? Not when they never see a penny of the profits.
