Capitalism is the enemy ideology of the working class

Happy new year to my opponent as well!Capitalism takes money away from workersThe main problem with capitalism is it is a hierarchical system which has people at the top which take money away from what could be going to the workers. I believe that a business owner is completely unnecessary, and only is a position of power that takes away profit that could be going to the worker. If I establish that a business owner is unnecessary, then this shows that capitalism is an enemy of the workers, as it keeps them below a certain wage. I would like to make the point that businesses can only offer a maximum wage to their employees before they no longer make a profit, the fact that the business owner also takes a percent of the profit, means they are taking something which could be going to increase the workers' wages. I believe the existence of workers' cooperatives show that privately-owned businesses are not necessary and a business owner is therefore not necessary. Since 3% of full-time and 16% of part-time workers are in poverty in the United States[2], this seems to show that wages are not always going to be enough to keep people living well. The wages, again, can only be so high before they start taking profits away from the business. Capitalism, therefore, takes money away from the workers, and gives it to an unncessary position: the business owner. Capitalism doesn't have the level of consent that a democratic economy wouldFor all intents and purposes, business owners are leaders and are people with a lot of power: after all, they are the ones who decide whether you get to work for a living. However, no one consented to having these people be the ones who decide to have such power. Workers did not get to consent to who hires and fires people in the company, it's as though they don't matter for this respect, even though their co-workers are people they will have to put up with as well. Capitalism is essentially like a monarchy: you have one person at the top of an entity(business) who decides everything about that business. We are supposed to value democracy in the United States and most of the western world, yet basically no western nation has a democratic economy. Cooperatives would also fix this problem, as the workers would get to consent to who is hired in the business, what the business policies are, etc. Example of Workers' CooperativesBusinesses can be run by the workers themselves, and in fact, workers' cooperatives, which are run by the workers, are better in several ways in comparison to capitalist businesses:1) 80% of cooperatives survive the first difficult 5 years of being in business, compared to 41% of the traditional business model.[3]2) In a comparative study performed by Gabriel Burdin and Andres Dean, where they looked into how cooperatives performed in the Uruguayan economic crisis between 1999-2001, it was found that Workers cooperatives employment index rose, while their capitalist counterparts fell in employment. [4, pg. 520] In addition to this, average wage remained higher in worker cooperatives than in capitalist businesses. [4, pg. 523]3) Cooperatives, on average, are larger than traditional businesses, where 69.3% of traditional businesses in France have 6 or fewer employees, compared to 52% of cooperatives in France, and in Uruguay, the percentages of them respectively are 64.1% and 8.6%[5, pgs 7-8] 4) It's been found that "in Italy the median capital per employee is higher in worker co-operatives" [5, pg. 17]Refuting potential argument against workers' cooperatives"If cooperatives prove that businesses don't need to be capitalist/owned by one person, then we should see cooperatives out-competing traditional businesses, but traditional businesses are still the majority"While cooperatives are so few and far between, the primary reason is because the system is constructed in such a way that favors capitalist companies. For one, banks rarely loan out to cooperatives[6](despite the fact that the ones that do exist are generally more successful than their capitalist counterparts as established above), the government only ever bails out traditional businesses and never cooperatives, cooperatives are not generally set-up to out-compete other companies either[6, and finally cooperatives are at a disadvantage since the vast majority(89%) of people can't even define what a cooperative is[7], I personally didn't even know what a cooperative was until I was 20, but I could give you a basic idea of what a capitalist business was before I was 10. I think I can safely assume that a vast majority of people have heard of and can define what a traditional/capitalist business is like, so most people shop at those and people looking to create a business probably never thought about making it a cooperative instead of a traditional business since most don't even know what one is. Source:[2] http://poverty.ucdavis.edu...;[3] http://www.uk.coop...;[4] http://www.sciencedirect.com...;(Note: I used to use a different link for this peer-reviewed article which provided the article for free, but that link no longer works[maybe they got in trouble for offering other people's work for free]. Unfortunately, this one you have to pay for to have access to, maybe you can find this article free elsewhere if you want to look for it) This is the original link, but I'm pretty sure it won't work: http://disjointedthinking.jeffhughes.ca...;)[5] http://www.uk.coop...;[6] ;[7] http://www.geo.coop...;