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Your work, the thing that at least under capitalism is the only source of income for the vast majority of us, is the most impactful thing to your direct day-to-day life after the wider government. Most of us spend a third of our week, if not more, at work. Despite this, it is where we generally exert the least of our political power!
Let's not even discuss how lobbying allows these unelected despots that we call "bosses" and "businessmen" exert almost total political control over the people we vote for! There's a reason we're allowed to vote for representatives in a government, but this very government will almost always do all it can to frustrate the movements that draw political power within our economic sphere.
This comic isn't "anti democracy". It is pro democracy. It simply attacks the common misrepresentation of representative government as "democracy" when it is wholly controlled by a force that we cannot exert power over democratically.