[adamcstephens]

If a flat org is communism, what is a top-down org? A dictatorship or authoritarianism?

[goodpoint]

A top-down org where employees don't have the power to vote out management is exactly that - an authoritarian structure. That's why is called privately owned.

[bradleyjg]

I don’t say it is communism rather it’s like communism in that both look good on paper and are disastrous in practice.