I'm going to answer my own question: Finding a job isn't a problem for smart, technical people. Negotiating might be, but not finding work. In fact, they know they can find another job or even start a company if they have to, so the blogger's sentiments are irrelevant to the HN crowd.

I disagree. What companies consider smart and technical is up for debate.

I think that is already happening to a large extent. More and more people are founding their own little companies to fund side-projects and do consulting work. The workplace of the future may simply be a collection of loosely coupled people writing each other invoices.

Yep, but that's not what I'm asking. Listen to any Mixergy podcast, and what does every company do? Hire people. I want to know what companies founded by gen-Y folks are doing to acknowledge the new thinking about the employer/employee relationship.

Contracting.

It's like a job, but with fewer false promises and expectations.

See - Coase's Theory of the Firm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

I have made it a personal goal to run my future business as flat as possible, and as close to a co-op model as possible, even to my own personal detriment.

Life is a bit different than ideals, and this may not come to pass, but it's a goal.

Those may be ideals that we value. But when those values hit the real world, you get The Twentieth Century Motor Company

http://www.conservapedia.com/Twentieth_Century_Motor_Company

I know it's probably just you copy-pasting a link off Google without being too attentive, but please, please, please do not cite Conservapedia. Take a look at the site homepage to get a taste of why.

I wasn't looking for a site that's got (or hasn't got) any particular reputation. I was looking for a good description of The Twentieth Century Motor Company.

Whatever you might think of Conservapedia (I have no opinion; I'm not Conservative, and don't frequent the site), their content for this article was a better description than I found in the rest of Google's first page of results.

I'm not sure if you're trying to be sarcastic... In the real world, we get fictional companies? I'll be first to say that modern unions are horrible, and there's lots of problems there. But there are also a lot of successful, democratically run business places.

Sorry, my wording was poor. That story is a parable, and I was trying to remind you of it, as a logical consequence of running a business as a co-op.

there are also a lot of successful, democratically run business places

I'm not aware of any. Can you cite examples?

Here's a list on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_cooperatives#Uni...

Obviously, this is not comprehensive.