From Grateful Ed's Medium While corporate CEOs in America earn 339 times more than their workers, the world’s most successful worker-owned enterprise, Mondragon Corporation, limits the highest salary to only six times the lowest. And here’s the real twist: despite its radical equality, Mondragon generated $11 billion in revenue by 2023. It’s not just a company — it’s a proof of concept. Worker ownership works. The Birth of a Radical Idea In 1941, Father José María Arizmendia

From Grateful Ed's Medium When the World Wide Web (WWW) first arrived, it transformed how we connected, communicated, and created. It democratized access to information, giving individuals the power to publish, trade, and participate in a global economy once reserved for institutions and corporations. Now, another quiet revolution may be emerging — one not in cyberspace, but in the workplace. It’s called Worker to Owner, Inc. (WTO, Inc.), and like the early internet, it promi

From Grateful Ed's Medium In Jackson Browne’s The Pretender, a haunting lyric captures the exhaustion of working life: “Caught between the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender.” It paints a picture that feels just as real today as it did in 1976 — people waking early, packing lunches, clocking in, grinding through the day, and collapsing at night, only to rise and do it all again. It is a cycle of survival, not fulfillment. And it’s not just about individual

From Grateful Ed's Medium [Image Credit: Canva ] What if the real crisis isn’t poverty, but what we do when there’s more than enough? Two...

From Grateful Ed's Medium [Image Credit: Canva ] What if conflict in the workplace isn’t inevitable, but a result of how we’ve separated...

From Grateful Ed's Medium [Image Credit: Canva ] Businesses once lived by a classic wisdom, “build a great product, and they will come,”...