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Democracy is easily captured by moneyed interests, unfortunately, which within companies gets called "politics". I've had much better luck using the techniques
by roguecoder 4y ago
Democracy is easily captured by moneyed interests, unfortunately, which within companies gets called "politics".
I've had much better luck using the techniques of social anarchy. We all generally want the same thing, we are in pretty stable communities, and there is a lot that can be accomplished by facilitators & organizers offering people the opportunity to opt in to certain kinds of improvements. You don't need power-over to bring about change.
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoOh I agree - I would suggest that most companies are if not corrupt then corroded. Weirdly I see Elon and SpaceX as an example - NASA found itself unable to escape its own corrosion so intelligently found ways to put its own engineers (I mean who else did SpaceX hire?) in a new organisational form. For ten years that managed to avoid "corrupting" the original vision, probably through sheer force of Elon firing people who weren't drinking the kool aid. Which works fine as long as his is the right kool aid. And something something unions, employees rights, decent conditions. But anyway - getting out of the wrong organisational form is well hard, and staying out seems ... impossible. Perhaps the simplest solution is to make a limit to the amount of time a company can exist for. Ten years and then tear it down and return capital to the owners. It might force rebuilding and recreation into staid forms. It's unlikely but there we go - I am just amazed as Inlook around that we have a mono-culture of organisational forms globally.
- slashdev 4y agoSo after ten years, no more Apple? Too bad if you still want to buy an iphone or you want support on the one you bought? Do you think this stuff through?