It’s actually interesting to see all the comments here and how foreign the idea of democracy in the work place is. The existing workplace structure is so engrained into our being that the idea of workplace hierarchy and democracy in the same context is being seen as confusing and unrelated.
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.
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.
It’s actually interesting to see all the comments here and how foreign the idea of democracy in the work place is. The existing workplace structure is so engrained into our being that the idea of workplace hierarchy and democracy in the same context is being seen as confusing and unrelated.
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.
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.
This is especially weird in late stage capitalism where our workplaces have more say in our liberal democracy than people do anyways