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Just a thought (vaguely connected here) but voting on features to be implemented is ... pretty much same as voting IRL on policies not parties. I have often wo
by lifeisstillgood 4y ago
Just a thought (vaguely connected here) but voting on features to be implemented is ... pretty much same as voting IRL on policies not parties.
I have often wondered what would be the thing to trigger companies to stop being totalitarian dictatorships and become democratic to their (employees / stakeholders) - is it crazy to say voting on features to build would be the one?
- xiaq 4y agoThe word you are looking for is consumers' co-operative (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_co-operative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_co-operative).
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoOh I am not so sure. Socialism is basically about public ownership. But the history of capitalism seems to show you don't need to own something to control it. So this is about control. such as regulation. not necessarily ownership. conflicts might arise !
- UncleEntity 4y agoUnless you have an absolute monopoly market position you are a democratic institution where the ‘votes’ are people giving you their hard earned money in exchange for whatever you’re selling. Where things go wrong is ‘stakeholders’ (aka non-paying people/customers) demanding influence for whatever is important to them like savings baby seals or whatever. They know they can’t influence the company by ‘voting with their wallet’ so seek out other means to change the company’s direction. Like, as a totally random example, wanting voting rights to the future plans of the company as an outsider with no knowledge of internal goals and/or if the proposal would even be profitable.
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoOh there are so many ways to play this game - kickstarter is basically voting in advanace with your money.
- solar-ice 4y agoI'm pretty sure that as a society we realised a very long time ago that for things that matter, tying votes to money is a really bad idea.