To me this says more about the attitudes of technologists than anything about OWS. I also note that there is no Occupy Palo Alto going on. Tech startups are at

To me this says more about the attitudes of technologists than anything about OWS. I also note that there is no Occupy Palo Alto going on. Tech startups are at the bleeding edge of capitalism where it is a fun game. Which is great to see The System work! We need a pluralist economy with all types of organizations. Startups have to challenge existing hierarchy in certain dimensions (business model), but strictly follow existing hierarchy in others (profitability, exit strategy). I'll cite the pg-Monsanto event here. There will always be a need to reconcile whatever structure exists in our cultural hierarchy with the broad needs of everyone that has to bend to the hierarchy we've chosen (or let happen). Athenian style democratic action is great way to do that. It is more meaningful to measure how cultural hierarchy responds to the incoherence that is real democracy (considering every person's desires equally) rather than how people's desires submit to the existing hierarchy.