Not Just Another Nut Milk: How One Brand Is Tackling Wealth Inequality
“Even back in 2013, before the pandemic revealed the most insidious impacts of capitalism, Jones knew an alternative business model was as important as an alternative milk product. Pecan Milk’s mission soon crystallized around putting power back in the hands of economically marginalized queer Black people in Atlanta. ‘With us being Black-owned, and it being the South, we do have to think about chattel slavery,’ Jones says. ‘We’re still really, really needing to build institutions that have dignified workplaces for us.’
Worker-owned cooperatives—where every worker, not just management and shareholders, can own an equal stake in the company and gets to fully benefit from the company’s growth—are entering the anti-capitalist zeitgeist as an antidote to the dominant ‘winner-take-all’ model.”