[jessant]

I think human nature incentivizes top-down corporate business structures and disincentivizes co-op businesss structures.

[apt-get]

Which is why 75% of France's farmers belong to an agricultural cooperative?

[seanalltogether]

I can't speak for France specifically but if it's anything like the UK and Ireland then farming families are dis-incentivized to sell land because its costs nothing to hold, and always increases in value. As a farmer you might not even own the land you work on but rent it for the season, and large corporations don't work well with that kind of uncertainty.

[cpach]

Are those profitable though? Farming is heavily subsidized by the EU.

[chottocharaii]

Perhaps, but the body of law point means we’ll never find out if you’re right or not.

[NeoBasilisk]

I would be very careful in trying to attribute something as complex as corporate structures to human nature. We have seen massive changes in all parts of society throughout the last 10k years. I don't think the human genome has changed so rapidly as to cycle through slavery, feudalism, mercantilism, capitalism, etc.

[andrepd]

It's always such a convenient and supremely lazy explanation. It's human nature for blacks to be servile. It's human nature for peasants to be ruled by the lord of the manor. And so on.

[hinkley]

> Nothing stopping people from doing that.

So... human nature. Human nature is stopping people from doing that.