[blacksmith_tb]

Hear, hear! Though it's probably reasonable to distinguish between representative democracy, which we're all familiar with, and direct democracy, which is satisfying but hard to scale beyond small groups. I would say that our autocratic workplaces were not designed to plunge workers into misery, that's just a side effect of making all that money. Worth shining some light on, since the basic underlying principles of capitalism are supposedly benefiting everyone (just not very equally...). Unfortunately it's hard to run any experiments with alternatives, though there are coops and workers' collectives.