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> if corporations wield enough power to be country-like [0], would it be fair to say they can only be democratic if the workers have the power to elect and rep
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
> if corporations wield enough power to be country-like [0], would it be fair to say they can only be democratic if the workers have the power to elect and replace the board of directors?
That seems like the wrong model. The power that we are worried about them exercising is over their users and the general public, not their workers. Your statement is like saying government workers should be able to vote who runs government because it is so powerful. The people we are worried about is the general public, not the workers.
- clairity 6y agoanti-suffragists tried to make those kinds of arbitrary distinctions too. a democracy doesn't need to be narrowly defined by its workers. as a company grows, its stakeholders grow to encompass more and more of the public. so especially for large companies, that distinction is immaterial. a democracy should be composed of the affected, not just some aribirarily-defined in-group.
- ben_w 6y agoAs a UK citizen living in Germany, I am worried about the power that America and China have over my future. I can be worried about both despite saying that one looks like a democracy and the other does not, even though I have no say over the government of either, and “customer” feels like it maps to “where exports go”.