Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy
Democracy can be improved by having democracy in the workplace.<p>Modern corporations are run like totalitarian, authoritarian regimes with top-down orders being barked down. If you disobey, you&#x27;re out.<p>People in Western democracies are no longer putting up with non-democratic control of their political institutions, but are completely oblivious to non-democratic control of their economic institutions and are perfectly willing to take orders where and when it matters most -- every day, 9 to 5.<p>When employees can directly vote and democratically elect the CEO&#x2F;CFO and other executive and managerial positions, across the wide range of industries and in majority of organizations, it will be a huge win for democracy, and that will spill into a much more engaged population politically as well. Also, at that point, employees are no longer employees.