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rootusrootusyesterday at 8:18 PM1 replyview on HN

What would your preferred alternative look like?


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shimmanyesterday at 9:04 PM

For the modern American tech corporation? Full throated workplace democracy, with an emphasis on small d:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_democracy

Corporations are the last authoritarian forces we willfully allow to dictate how we live our lives, I think anything to dismantle their power is worth pursuing. If democracy is good enough for states, it should surely be more than good enough for the economy.

As someone who is a big fan of consensus and voice, I don't see how current corporate leadership could get worse if more workers inside the company had more opportunities to direct its future. It's their future too, they need a say and telling people to just leave goes back to the neoliberal decaying value of money above all us.

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