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Re:"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs by whimsicalism on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:29PM (#25141254)
> everyone gets 100% of the vote (i.e. veto power) when it comes to how they use their own labor and resources

Yeah, so uh... not democracy.

I'm not going to relitigate the entirety of Anarchy, State & Utopia in the HN comments section, but suffice to say that these ideals are far from objectively "egalitarian" and the idea that other's negative, non-inferential side-constraints must be sometimes violated in the context of social cooperation is actually foundational to republican (as in the political philosophy) thought.

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Re:"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs by nybble41 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:24PM (#25141969)
It's not direct democracy, but those systems are rare. Everything else is quibbling over details. What most people mean when they say "democracy" has little to do with voting and everything to do with the protection of rights for minorities… which is much closer to voluntaryism than direct democracy.
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