These corporations compete in a relatively free market that benefits from some regulation. Corporations develop new products and services, get loans from public banks for new lines, and market them. As socialists Bergonians hardly consider government regulation as inherently evil, but will complain bitterly if a specific regulation is stupid. Industrial democracy ameliorates the worst features of bigness, but the evils of bureaucracy still persist. Agribusiness dominates farming in the US, and farmers in Japan and France work small, often inefficient farms.
Bergonian farmers work in village-based collectives.
The individual farmer has a single membership share in the cooperative, as well as a single vote. This entitles him to a guaranteed share of the co-op income. He forfeits his share and vote if he ceases working. All working members draw additional income shares according to their individual occupations. Rights to share pass to the children of members, which is to say that the children of members can become members if they want.