You spend more waking hours at work than you do on your own.
Respond to the statement
that your experience of democracy is largely controlled by company policy or at the pleasure of management.
Where there is no democracy, there is no justice. There is only power and subjugation. We rebelled against that condition to form a new nation at a time when most people were entrepreneurs or apprentices. With the rise of corporations, bubbles of tyranny began to form and filled up all of our space and time with power and subjugation. The democracy we sought for everyone was consumed. The fix is simple: abolish the dictatorial business structure of the corporation, and screen and bar the predators that exploit it from productive human society.
Top-down business structures in which decisions are made at the top and flow down through the organization to the people that carry them out can be thought of as exploitable social hierarchies. This sort of business structure — the corporate business structure as it is widely accepted today — constitutes an attractor for psychopathic personalities…
13 Assassins (2010), directed by Takashi Miike. The rumors swirled while the production was still in development. According to the rumors, it was to be a remake of 7 Samurai (1954), directed by Akira Kurosawa. It wasn’t, but like 7 Samurai, it was a story of ordinary people overcoming extraordinary criminals. Psychopathy was not a…
Ferdinand Magellan and his crew slipped the surly bonds of the Dark Ages when they set out to circumnavigate the world in AD 1519. For the most part, however, they took most of the Dark Ages with them in the form of their ideology, cultural sensibilities and religious beliefs. This is why Catholicism prevails to…
While episodic social upsets driven by psychopaths and their followers are both painfully obvious and abundant to the point of distraction in the historical record, it is enlightening to place these upsets into the context of Babiak & Hare‘s psychology experiments. In these experiments, as treated further in another post, the minds in a random…
lesson learned (n): A law that prevents the recurrence of past social upsets. Most laws are passed in response to particular situations. Root cause analysis exposes the underlying dynamics that lead to particular situations. Based on these underlying dynamics, we can design fixes that prevent particular situations from arising. The Constitution of the United States…
YouTuber @JanetWeiss5166 asked me on 15 October 2025 “Can you help the following facts go viral?” I added bullet points and rendered in italics the part I edited and my addendum. In March 2024 the Supreme Court ruled against the state of Colorado seeking to keep insurrectionist Trump’s name off the state ballot, citing the…
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The Usurpation of Democracy by Corporate Tradition
To be publicly traded, a corporation assumes public responsibilities. Chief among these but heretofore overlooked should be the implementation of democratic processes throughout the organization at every level. This is in fact the only way to ensure the ongoing enforcement of the other elements of public responsibility and the only reason for their heretofore typical neglect. The honor system never did work and this is why democracy was invented so long ago.
The Usurpation of Democracy by Corporate Tradition
To be publicly traded, a corporation assumes public responsibilities. Chief among these but heretofore overlooked should be the implementation of democratic processes throughout the organization at every level. This is in fact the only way to ensure the ongoing enforcement of the other elements of public responsibility and the only reason for their heretofore typical neglect. The honor system never did work and this is why democracy was invented so long ago.