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by wahnfrieden 1055 days ago
Sociocracy (from the Quakers) provides an interesting framework: consent-based decision-making instead of consensus or authority-based hierarchies.

To call hierarchical authority "human nature" is to ignore not only theoretical viability, but also demonstrated present-day viability as well as modern anthropological and archaeological understandings of realities explored in our pasts.

Sadly most of us have bosses or subject others to it, and we bind ourselves to these structures by legal contract and risk being identified as insubordinate if we try to do better.

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How is consent-based decision making different from consensus?
The Wikipedia page on it looks pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy

Sociocratisch Centrum co-founder Reijmer has summarized the difference as follows: "By consensus, I must convince you that I'm right; by consent, you ask whether you can live with the decision".