[vkou]

> If you run a business and your solvency depends on the existence of another, larger business, you're not as independent as the title of 'business owner' alludes.

99.9% of businesses in the United States depend on the existence of their power utility to operate.

I guess they aren't independent businesses, either.

But the rest of your point is salient. I too, am baffled by how many of the greatest advocates of democracy seem to have been brainwashed into resisting democracy in the workplace.

[munificent]

That's one of the reasons power utilities are regulated by the government.

Yes, every organization is dependent on other organizations. That's why it's so important to be thoughtful about how those organizations are structured and what their incentives are. It's not the being dependent on an organization that's a problem, it's being dependent on an organization that has little regulation, whose goal is to make as much money as possible, and who thinks of your organization as a cost sink.

People tend to get into this mindset that businesses and government are fundamentally different, but their both just social institutions with their sometimes different sometimes similar rules and incentives.

> I too, am baffled by how many of the greatest advocates of democracy seem to have been brainwashed into resisting democracy in the workplace.

The owners of those workplaces have spent decades and millions of dollars creating propandanda to do that brainwashing.