• ALostInquirer@lemm.eeOP
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    4 months ago

    Because I would expect people in democratic nations to value democracy and see it as worth exercising in business. This is in part as I see democracy as a formal way of referring to being open to discussion of opinions and ideas in organizing any group.

    Why would you want to be part of any group that may reject open discussion of its organization?

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      4 months ago

      In a democracy you vote on what happens with a shared resource that belongs to all of you, like a country. If a business has several owners they might steer it democratically, like a family business deciding together what to do. But if that business hires employees, the employees don’t vote, because it’s not their shared resource, so why would they have power to decide on it?

      Of course that doesn’t preclude open discussion. Many businesses decide together with their employees, it’s just based on discussion and exchange of ideas, not on voting. Why would you hire an expert and then vote among employees instead of letting the expert decide on their area of expertise?