The guy at Forbes who wrote this is full of it- because he has no idea how a real worker cooperative works.
Mondragon, the largest worker cooperative in the world, grosses around $15 to $20 Billion a year. But they dont just divide the net income among all the workers. A real workers cooperative pays its workers salaries, and keeps funds for investment, R&D, expansion, and all the regular expenses of any other company.
So, the headline is complete bullshit.
If Apple was a workers cooperative, its employees might make a bit more than they do now, but some workers cooperatives pay everyone the same, and most do not. Mondragon has a wide range of salaries- just being an employee there doesnt make you get an equal percentage of after tax profit.
I have actually worked for a coop- and got paid market wages. I owned a share of another company I worked for, after they did an ESOP- another way of shifting ownership to employees, and, again, just got paid market wages.
the idea that if workers own a company, it will immediately crash, is absurd. There are worker owned companies around the world, including some in the USA, that have been around for decades. The workers are, essentially, the shareholders. And, just like any other shareholders, they want the company to make a profit, and continue in business.
here is an interesting list of the 100 largest employee owned companies in the USA- some are "worker cooperatives", some are not. Many are companies you may have done business with. I have been a subcontractor for several large construction projects run by Parsons, for example, and it was far from "socialism". But it was a worker owned company. And it is no failure.
The Employee Ownership 100: America's Largest Majority Employee-Owned Companies