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Slavery lasted over thousand years as an economic system. Feudalism lasted just as long. Your argument back then would have been "if capitalist firms were bette
by mempko 11y ago
Slavery lasted over thousand years as an economic system. Feudalism lasted just as long. Your argument back then would have been "if capitalist firms were better, I would expect some. People in the feudalist world would use that system".
As a matter of fact, there are thousands or such flat firms. Just as during feudalism there were thousands of capitalist firms that would fail.
Failure is does not mean it won't work in 10, 50 or 100 years.
There will be a time when we think of managers the same way we think of kings now.
- nickff 11y agoIt's possible that flat organizations are the future, but it is not true that all organizations were lord-serf in feudal times or that slave labor was the only sort of labor in its time (, in fact slavery still exists). Please show some examples of flat firms, which are not the highly centralized sort described in the OP, I am interested in reading about them. As far as I have seen, all so-called flat organizations are actually very centralized for all important decisions.
- mempko 11y agoOne of the largest is of course Mondragon in Spain which employs 74,000 or so workers. Flat is usually called "Socialist" in the rest of the world.