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I'm not buying it. Monarchy was the best system ever tried until democracy gained prominence. Voting with feet and voting with dollars has always been a way to
by kelseyfrog 4y ago
I'm not buying it. Monarchy was the best system ever tried until democracy gained prominence.
Voting with feet and voting with dollars has always been a way to make workers and consumers(often the same) feel like they've got a say without actually giving them one.
The problem is that the territory of the conflict is attempting to be constrained ie: within the current legal structure. What isn't allowed here is the conflict to spill into the province of arguing about the rules of the game itself. We've never had a static legal landscape and never will, and yet arguments like these assume it.
Workers should have a shot at workplace democracy because it's a fundamental right of self-determination. Carve-outs of that right like in workplaces are only as natural as we make them.
- jfengel 4y agoHey, I don't disagree. I'm just explaining how it works: just because a bunch of people get together to vote on something doesn't make it binding. Maybe it should, but it doesn't. There's a million things I'd do differently if I were in charge. But not only am I not in charge, what little power I do possess has been systematically diluted to the point of effective nonexistence.