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That's one reason skepticism for the employer-employee relationship ends up recurring in a lot of liberty-oriented philosophies. You can find it anywhere from m
by _delirium 13y ago
That's one reason skepticism for the employer-employee relationship ends up recurring in a lot of liberty-oriented philosophies. You can find it anywhere from more on the left (e.g. Emma Goldman), to more on the right (e.g. Lysander Spooner), and even in a form in Thomas Jefferson's "yeoman farmer" ideal (though he didn't follow it himself), since he thought industrial-style mass employment fit poorly with democracy.
An alternative is to constrain the power, as is done in more consensus-oriented labor systems like Scandinavia's, treating the company as a kind of partnership of multiple stakeholders, and having many decisions made by committees with both employer and employee representatives. A kind of weak importing of a few ideas from worker's cooperatives, without actually moving all the way there.