As described in the house journal,

As described in the house journal, 'the supreme purpose of the whole
organisation is to secure the fairest possible sharing by all members of all
the advantages of ownership-gain, knowledge and power' .2 The first
two of these aims are met at present to a greater degree than the third.
All shares in the Partnership are hdd by a Trust and all distributed profits
are shared by the partners (employees). All partners are equal in the sense
that all share the rewards so that, in this formal sense, the Partnership has
gone some way to meeting the condition of economic equality regarded
as necessary for participation by the theorists of participatory democracy.
However, distribution is according to level of pay, so ~t in a practical
sense there is no move to economic equality; this distribution 'accentuates
the prevailing hierarchical structure of remuneration' .3 We have seen