This is nice in theory, but I am afraid it fails quickly in practice. I am a leftist, but I don't believe self-organizing works in situations where there is so

This is nice in theory, but I am afraid it fails quickly in practice. I am a leftist, but I don't believe self-organizing works in situations where there is some higher level of control. People don't have incentive to self-organize in small scale, if there is some other big beneficiary outside their control. This is very abstract, so let me give two examples of what I mean. 1. In communist countries, sometimes, self-organization was tried on the level of individual state-owned companies (basically they were supposed to run as worker-owned cooperatives). It mostly failed horribly. But all of these countries were dictatorships with top-level, directive planning of the economy. So these "cooperatives" were still subject to larger plans, and that broke the incentive (or will) to self-organize. 2. Similarly, even though many companies try to have people self-organize, it falls flat because of the basic capitalistic premise - that there is an owner (or multiple owners) to the whole enterprise. This owner takes in a large amount of economic profit, which, if the team was truly self-organizing, would stay within the team. This breaks the incentive to self-organize. Why make something more efficient (even as a group) if some other people are going to decide how much you benefit? So I think, taken my and your conclusions together, bad stand-ups are inevitable, except maybe in worker cooperatives (which are actually very efficient in capitalist economy, that is, if they operate entirely for the benefits of their own members).