Seems like a lot of potential for scale and impact. Anyone know of similar organizations?

  • LesserAbe@lemmy.worldOP
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    I’m sure there are certain issues where direct democracy would be appropriate, regardless how big the cooperative is. But technological reasons aren’t the issue. A manager is delegated authority to make decisions because it’s inefficient to involve members in every single matter.

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      The problem is one of scope. I think we’ve historically delegated more than we should because we couldn’t do direct voting well.

      For example, I feel that people should have an active say into which categories their tax money goes.

      For managers, they don’t need to be given the same control they have now

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        There are also a lot of things where not everyone in a society needs to vote on something. Do men need to have a vote on the type of tampon that is stocked in the bathroom? Do the other departments need to weigh in on the butcher’s scheduled hours?

        It really does have a limit where once you go more than a couple layers decisions get made by people who are not involved or invested in whatever is being decided.

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      perhaps it should be treated like a priority list: direct democracy for every single thing won’t work, but perhaps if there’s a monthly vote on the top 10 issues people have (as prioritised by the members of the coop somehow: maybe you get 5 votes to spend however you like in the issues list?) and the rest is delegated