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I've been hearing some progressive liberals calling ESOPs "socialism" and not being super familiar with these vehicles I decided to a bit of reading. This led me to believe that this is a mischaracterization, especially with respect to one of the core tenets of socialism: workplace democracy.

So I decided to ask AI to compare them. Here are some screenshots. The question was the same every time:

"Can you explain the differences between ESOPs and worker's cooperatives? Please provide a lot of detail, list sources (with links), and conclude by arguing which is a better fit for workplace democracy"

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here's a deep research from perplexity pro about it too. copy pasted your prompt

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