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Three cheers for Democracy! (slrpnk.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] RedditWanderer 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's not why people are confused.This is using a dumb definition of democracy in the workplace to say democracy overall is bad. There's plenty to say about democracy, but this is just disingenuous. Especially on lemmy where there's a lot of support for various definition of communism. So people are adding that baggage to this post.

Imagine making a comic against "solar power" because solar flares break our satellites and are a pretty serious threat to our way of life. Sure? But it's just a shortsighted argument and a bad comparison.

In a country with proper social structures, you do get to choose your manager/boss, it's just not a "democratic process" per se. Also democracies/autocracies/oligarchies/monarchies don't mean capitalism/authoritarianism/communism/socialism. There's a difference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

At most places, most people can simply switch jobs without changing their residence. So yeah, they are choosing their boss individually, which is far more power than democracy.