[chanakya]

There are several fundamental differences between a democracy in a nation and one at a workplace:

- Someone owns the workplace. No citizen owns the nation.

- If you don't like a workplace, you can switch to another, or start your own. You mostly can't do that with a nation.

- There's nothing preventing people from starting workplaces with a "democratic model" (and there are a few around). They just don't seem to work very well.

[oofdoof]

The “nation” is a fairly new concept and what was there before did have owners.

The future he talks about might be one where workplaces don’t have an owner either.

[RichEO]

Ironically it was once much easier to change nations as well. Or, under some limited circumstances to even start your own. Hard borders are a relatively new thing taking into account the breadth of human history.