Having a company culture where _everyone_ feels safe enough to speak up and being heard (instead of getting kicked out) is not democracy. It is smart and crucial, in my opinion.

I am surprised that critizing something at a company equals being a trouble maker to you.

I am sure James Damore also wanted that. They went even further with him and outright fired him and shamed him.

This is an interesting contrast in behavioral ethics. That is, if you ignore the thoughts/emotions/etc and only look at actions. The scale and agency of one set of actions is not even comparable to the other.

Google is a stale big corp that has not innovated in a decade. Expecting it to listen to its workers, who are now a commodity, is at best naive.

Listening to dissenting voices only matters to small companies who will die if they make a mistake. Google could spend 20 years doing nothing but mistakes and it will still have money in the bank.

Please stop posting ideological flamebait to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Given that your other posts are screeching about "stuck up women", perhaps one should surmise that your problem is not "democracy in the workplace." Which, while we're at it, is a misrepresentation of worker representation in company administration--a phenomenon that does work, as countries like Germany demonstrate.