In that sentence? That was talking about my interpretation of the OP, which suggests individual engineers advocate for themselves in traditional organizations w

In that sentence? That was talking about my interpretation of the OP, which suggests individual engineers advocate for themselves in traditional organizations when they believe in their ideas. So it would be the individual engineer deciding if they believe in their idea, though in traditional orgs it would be the managers that have some say in what gets implemented. However I also see people respond to me when I talk about co-ops who somehow think I want to be Joseph Stalin, where in the imagined case they are skewering me for wanting all the decision making power. But that is a fantasy as the whole point of a co-op is to have more diffuse decision making power than under traditional orgs!