And the advantages of a cooperative approach is that you gain a much wider range of skills, experience, intellect, labor, and most likely profitability.     This requires honesty, respect for individual rights, a Cost to have the right to benefit from the cooperative arrangement, the ability to take pride in team accomplishments and not just individual laurels or money incentives. (although both could be part of team rewards).

I believe Oregon's commitment to individual experiences, both conservative and liberal, make cooperative team/group/state objectives very hard to negotiate.      This state is ruled by the majority, not the cooperative skills of all Oregonians, and that's a real problem in the state finding a healthy balance.  We can't find social balance, we can't find budget balance.   I would say the exact same thing if the majority were conservative Republicans

What do Oregonians have in common?