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Large organizations are usually internally run like communist states with planned economies and share the same pathologies. They are basically dictatorships, ha
by spaetzleesser 5y ago
Large organizations are usually internally run like communist states with planned economies and share the same pathologies. They are basically dictatorships, have 5 year plans, leadership that’s detached from the reality of the base, a lot of effort is put into propaganda, there are many people whose only job is to check on other people, the fruit of successes goes to only a few, and so on. Same structure, same outcome.
- unnah 5y agoThere is some truth to that, but large companies do have to keep their customers at least somewhat happy, and can't quite beat them up whenever they think of switching to another supplier... although I suppose you could argue the point with some monopolies.
- tehjoker 5y agoFunny that the solution to that would be some kind of democratic centralism, anaethema to business people but consistent with a branch of communist theory. The reason the businesses are run centrally planned is because the alternative is introducing internal markets within the company which create high internal transaction costs, brutal politics, and duplicative effort.