• treadful@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    It’s… not weird at all. Democracy is a form of governance that permeates all our lives and controls the state that has a monopoly of violence that can be used against us and take away our rights. It’s not something we can opt-out of so it’s important that everyone has a say in it.

    Small groups forming to do things like commerce or non-profits or whatever are completely voluntary and can’t take our rights away. The fact is, these authoritarian-like structures are efficient and effective. Even employee-owned corporations tend to organize this way by electing the officers.

    Would love to see more companies experiment with democratic organizations though.

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      1 year ago

      Arguably technology has changed this paradigm a lot. More people now just means more thinkers, who work best not under stress