• elscallr@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You ever seen a camel? It’s a horse that’s been designed by a committee. Democratically run things don’t accomplish shit because you can never get groups of people to agree on anything.

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      1 year ago

      Camels are pretty dang well designed creatures so I’d say the committee did pretty great there. And the alternative is being at the whims of a single person or a small group none of whom have any incentive to care about anything other than the enrichment of their own personal finances. It’s a literal autocracy.

      Governance structures where the workers own and have a say in the means of production are bound to have their own issues to be sure, but it beats out the current model.

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        1 year ago

        They might be good at being camels, but they’re terrible horses. And if you’ve ever tried to lead a group of more than a handful of people, you’d know they can never agree on shit. Someone has to make the call.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, that’s one way of looking at it. Guess I’d just rather have a voice in a mediocre place than be someone’s peon even if I respected their strategy.

      Go figure! People with different personal priorities existing! What a world!

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          Be which way? I honestly don’t know what you mean. I just said why I still have the ideals/preferences that I do despite the problems you pointed out with an ancient cliché.

          Y’know, just having different preferences, like I said.