Not to suggest that the "dirty" aspect of the current system should be ignored, but it's also inefficient and, contrary to the hype bandied about, actually stifles innovation and creativity.

Today's workers do have that headache, in the form of wages being suppressed so that executives can squeeze profit from those businesses at their expense. Again, there's nothing about a co-op that says there can't be a person or department or whatever that keeps an eye on such things. Every little decision doesn't have to be a meeting. These are things that can be figured out.

If nobody was there to put the food on the shelf, the person taking the inventory wouldn't have a job either. For that matter, I've actually done both of those jobs in a restaurant, and I can tell you from experience that the person putting the food away actually has the harder job, physically speaking. Furthermore, if that person does a good job, it makes the inventory person's job easier. Our current system definitely overvalues the inventory person.

CEO's still managed to get grotesquely rich under such high marginal tax rates.

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Gotcha. You're welcome, I thought it might be something like that since things do seem to be under construction and all, but figured I'd say something.