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This is absurd. The true power of democracy is freedom to speak. To disagree to challenge. Google does this better than any big company I've ever heard of. I li
by more_corn 8y ago
This is absurd. The true power of democracy is freedom to speak. To disagree to challenge. Google does this better than any big company I've ever heard of. I literally challenged the CEO in public on the question of the housing crisis in the bay area. He responded and the conversation continued. There have been a dozen times in the last several years when healthy internal conversation at Google has changed policy. Name one time that happened at IBM.
- knuththetruth 8y ago>The true power of democracy is freedom to speak. The true power of democracy is...democracy. Google doesn’t have a labor union or worker-ownership, so while executives might be open to appeals, ultimately what you’re describing is an authoritarian arrangement. I do think employees and users would be better off if Google was democratically controlled in either of the ways described above, but unfortunately that’s not where we are right now.