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Three cheers for Democracy! (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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] 0 points 6 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.