Strange Brew by John Deering for May 30, 2022

If you look at the history of coops, you will surely find that there’s an important economic component behind most of them. And, yes, some that I know of had “enforcers” to deal with Homer.

When I was a teenager in Minneapolis I remember there were CO-OPs that were loosely monetarily based and there were also mini-CCCP’s with their “social” agenda with enforcers. It got ugly and violent when the free market versions were forcibly overtaken. The customers voted with their pocketbooks and the free market prevailed. Nobody likes to be told what to eat, to stand in line for inferior products or pay more than what is fair.

“D’oh!”

Snitches in britches get stitches.

Yeah, that’s funny.

I go to a co-operative and buy birdseed….LOL

Wish I could see what you’ve drawn. What’s with all the dark wash?

I lived in a Co-Op at Cal Berkeley. Kinda like buying shares in a corporation, ideally,

And yesterday I heard him say a discouraging word!