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But you can do that within a capitalist system, can't you? Start a company with a bunch of coworkers and share ownership. If you grow and want more workers, give them a share. Since everyone will be so happy and productive and there's no owner siphoning off unmerited profits, you should be able to wipe out and capitalist competition.
That's one idea. One I participated in for a few years. Although the idea of competition isn't necessarily accurate. That's a capitalist concept where your goal is maximum profit. Infinite growth through the capture of a market. And one that a collective must contend with.
There's also the difficulty of working within the framework of capitalist law.
For example, if an anarchist organisation chose to enact freedom from association, collectively, against one member. The whole collective refuses to work with this member any more for some justifiable reason. They are clearly therefore no longer a member of the collective. But if not done wisely the ex member could take the organisation to court for breach of employment law.
Put simply, the law in many countries is written to oppose this form of ownership in many subtle and annoying ways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers'_self-management