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A Boring Dystopia
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Cooperatives are democratic, the members vote on what it means to have a nice living situation.
If there are ten people with ten different expectations, they would all vote for something, in summary/conclusion, "in the middle", which would make nobody happy. The best would be, if everyone could choose for themselves and that is the case right now, except many people perhaps cannot afford, what they'd wish for. Still, better than having a "democracy", where nobody is truly happy.
The case right now is, if you can't afford what you want, you can't choose it. They don't get to choose for themselves, the market chooses for them!
If I have to choose between market decision making and democratic decision making, I'll choose democracy. At the very least, a democratic process leaves no one homeless.