Mondragon Corporation is the world’s largest worker cooperative, based in the Basque region of Spain, and it flips the traditional capitalist model on its head: workers own the company, vote on leadership, and share in the profits. Founded in 1956 by a Catholic priest and a group of engineering students, Mondragon now includes over 80 cooperatives across industries like manufacturing, finance, retail, and education that is employing over 70,000 people. It’s not a utopia, but it shows that large-scale democratic ownership can work: executives earn no more than 6–9 times what the lowest-paid workers make (compared to the average of 344 times in USA), layoffs are rare (and often involve internal relocation), and key decisions are made collectively. It’s proof that economy-of-scale doesn’t require hierarchy and exploitation.