Re:Changes at Basecamp
by mempko on Monday April 26, 2021 @07:36PM
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Yet politics is one of the few places you can impact your workplace. Most companies in the US are authoritarian and it's in politics you can have some say. Democracy at Work is the next stage of work. The "shut up and work" kind of work is a dead end.
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Re:Changes at Basecamp
by throwaway3699 on Monday April 26, 2021 @08:57PM
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1. You start a 'democratic' company
2. You make a controversial decision or series of decisions
3. You lose 'voted out'
4. Turns out your controversial decision would've been [firing a few employees/getting acquired/insert unpopular thing here] to keep the company afloat, and everything goes belly up
It's the same reason unions only work in the biggest, most established companies. Everything slows to a crawl otherwise.
Seems Mondragon does just fine.
> cooperatives tend to last longer and are less susceptible to perverse incentives and other problems of organizational governance than more traditionally managed organizations.