[firstplacelast]

Hard agree, but it’s not actionable for anyone not rich.

Bottom up approaches are the only things that will solve these things, so yes you and me have to put our money and talents where our mouths are.

This board tends towards believing in democracy yet we spend half+ of our waking hours existing within non-democratic institutions…they’re not even representative republics, the thing we pass off as pro-democracy today.

If we want it, we have to build it, we have to build safe-guards, and we have to stand by and not loot as much money as possible when the time presents.

We have so far shown we are collectively not capable of doing these things.

Are there any multi-billion dollar organizations that work on the principles we so desire in our own government? Maybe democracy is just a joke and a sentiment for feel-good buy-in from the masses.

“Tech” has devolved into crony- capitalism on crack. But we’ve minted quite a few average-joe millionaires, so yay?

[Joeri]

The book Reinventing Organizations walks through a number of examples of large organizations that tried to have a bottom-up decision-making process, some succeeded for the long haul, some reverted back to top-down.