“File sharing was a problem for the major labels, but indpndnt musicians [were] finding ways to make downloads work — until streaming came along [+] convinced independent music fans to stop paying for them... [We have] billionaires creating problems to solve, but not solving problems that we have”

Cover the people and groups that are organizing effective opposition, legitimizing their perspective and adding to their organizational capacity.

Great points. There's clearly a great deal that has worked and does work.

Even if we find some pathways to be a dead end, the idea that we can't learn something from each of the thousands of experiments in worker control and ownership is profoundly self-limiting.

How is electricity provision a market, though? Isn't an electrical utility a natural monopoly best served by a regulated, planned system (as is the case with these co-ops)?