If people were properly educated, capitalism would disappear

As my opponent will find out, I am not uneducated and I know of many studies that are relevant to this topic. First, I need my opponent to recognize that if the economy was to have primarily cooperative businesses, it would not be capitalist. The logic is implied in the definitions I provided above how Capitalism requires private property, and cooperatives are not private property, but rather cooperative property. I suspect my opponent will agree since they agreed to the definitions above by accepting the debate. If people were properly educated about worker cooperatives, it would lead to a rise in the amount of them.Now, I'd like to point out that worker cooperatives are generally more successful than capitalist firms, so by all means they should be out-competing capitalist firms, but I'll point out why that isn't happening(it's because most people are ignorant of cooperatives). In a number of studies in the United Kingdrom, the United States, France, Spain, and Canada, it was found that Capitalist businesses for a 3-5 year period only have a survival rate of under 50%, ranging from as low as 5%(in a 5 year period) to as high as 48%(in a 3 year period), in comparison cooperatives(which are essentially socialist business models) have a 3-5 year survival rate of as low as 62% to as high as 90%[1][2][3][4][5][6]. Therefore, capitalism, I believe, naturally results in an economy that won't be able to boom as much due to the failure rate of capitalist businesses. Additionally, cooperatives, especially worker cooperatives, are particularly resilient during economic crises, moreso than their capitalist counterparts.[2] Additionally, 78% of people who know about worker coops, prefer to shop at those than capitalist businesses[2] One must wonder, if these numbers are true, why aren't worker coops overtaking capitalist businesses? It's really quite simple. Very few worker coops are ever created, whereas many more capitalist businesses are. I believe one reason for this is because of this fact: 89% of people don't even know what a cooperative is[7] let alone a worker coop. If everyone knew what a cooperative was, there would likely be many more people who would shop at them, create them, and they would boom so much that they would possibly overtake the capitalist economy we have.If the government wasn't involved in our economy, more people would likely realize how bad capitalism isOnce more, capitalist businesses have greater than a 50% failure rate within the first 5 years of being in business, and that likely goes up as you increase the amount of years. However, a major problem about our government, is that it is a strong supporter of capitalist businesses. It just doesn't want to allow big capitalist businesses to fail when they're supposed to, and they make stimulus packages and bail companies out when they fear that these capitalist businesses will do the intrinsic factor of capitalism, which is failure. If, however, these companies were allowed to fail and ruin the economy more, people would likely see the problem and instability of capitalism. They would likely want to try a different economic model, and start doing research themselves on them. They may come across worker cooperatives, and see that they fail at a much smaller rate than traditional businesses, provide higher wages to their workers, and provide more employment options than capitalist businesses.Additionally, the government has many business regulations for safety to minimum wage laws, etc that most people aren't able to see the terrible effects capitalisn has naturally without government involvement. If they knew how bad capitalism is without government involvement, which is how it was in the 1800s when working conditions were terrible and wages were terrible, people would likely want to transition to a new economy. But, the government prevents people from being able to see the downsides of capitalism and tries to alleviate many of the terrible aspects of it.Worker cooperatives provide more employment, higher wages, and are more productive, so why wouldn't people switch to them if they knew about them?The latter two points I brought up in the last sentence of an earlier paragraph are facts shown by this comparative study performed by Gabriel Burdin and Andres Dean, where they looked into how cooperatives performed in the Uruguayan economic crisis between 1999-2001. Tt was found that "average employment and wages in WCs[worker cooperatives] tend to be greater than in CFs[capitalist firms]." [8, pg. 522] The wage being higher definitely makes sense, since in a worker-cooperative, there is no person at the top taking a percentage of the business profits as their own, personal, income. Instead, this income is spread across the workers, which would mean their wages would be higher. Additionally, it's been found that the average employment in a single worker coop is 10[4] while traditional businesses have only just over 4 employees on average[5]. Worker cooperatives generally are created to benefit workers, and so they tend to employ more people than capitalist businesses, since capitalist businesses will employ the minimum amount of employees possible in order to maximize one's own profits. Worker coops, on the other hand, have a goal of improving workers' lives, and so they are more likely to employ more people. Thus, this can help end unemployment and the poverty rate by making worker cooperatives become a larger sector of the economy.It has been found in a study conducted by Ben Craig, of the federal reserve bank of Cleveland, and John Pencavel, of Standford University, that worker cooperatives within the plywood industry are more materially productive than traditional firms[11, pg 124]. The reasons they believe for this are because:1) "A co-op mitigates the agency cost associated with a corporation's division between ownership and control". Since co-ops are owned by the workers, they are much more likely to be informed about the business decisions than if they weren't owners, thus there is no need to spend extra time from business owners to educate them on this matter.[11, pgs 124-125)2) Worker co-ops eliminate "the separation of interests between workers and owners."[11 pg 125] As one can imagine, there are many instances in which a conventional firm would be presented with opportunities where they can make a decision that more benefits them and harms the workers. The workers would be opposed to this, and normally what happens in a conventional firm, is that bargaining goes on and this takes up precious time that could be devoted to work. In a co-op, this bargaining would not take place, since worker-owners would likely choose what benefits the majority of the workers, whereas in a traditional business, the owner would choose what only benefits themselves.3) Workers are able to monitor each other better than in traditional businesses where the monitor is a single manager [11, pgs 125-126]. This makes sense as well, since in co-ops, the workers are the ones who make the decisions of the company, and would be involved in hiring and firing other workers. Co-workers are more often among their co-workers than a manager is, so they would be able to monitor their co-workers more effectively than a manager. This provides incentive for each worker to provide their best work and not laze around.Conclusion of this round:Thus, because worker coops pay their employees more, have higher employment rates and thus can help end unemployment, and are more productive than capitalist businesses, it's easy to conclude that people would prefer cooperatives to capitalist businesses if they only knew about them and didn't have a government that favors capitalist businesses. Additionally, this is already proven that people tend to prefer cooperatives because 78% of people who know about cooperatives state they prefer cooperatives. It should be pretty obvious that if the system wasn't rigged in favor of capitalist businesses, if people were educated about worker coops and coops in general, they would likely easily overtake the capitalist bussines, and thus transfer our economy into what is known as a cooperative economy, which is a socialist economy[12]I'll turn this over to my opponent, and wish them luck. I look forward to seeing if they can point out any flaws in my arguments.Sources:[1] http://www.geo.coop...[2] http://www.cecop.coop...[3] https://www.uk.coop...[4] http://www.ontario.coop...[5] http://www.uwcc.wisc.edu...[6] http://www.uwcc.wisc.edu...[7] www.geo.coop/story/new-survey-reveals-perceptions-and-myths-about-co-ops[8] disjointedthinking.jeffhughes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Burdin-Dean-2009.-New-evidence-on-wages-and-employment-in-worker-cooperatives-compared-with-capitalist-firms.pdf[9] http://institute.coop...[10] https://smallbiztrends.com...[11] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu...[12] https://en.wikipedia.org...