Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

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If workers run the government, then sure.

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That’s assuming that all workers have good intentions and consider the good of all humans before power.

Well, surprise! Workers are humans. And we have seen many times what happens when uncontrolled power has been given to any human group or individual humans.

There should be no power to the government. Only management positions. And those management positions need to be open to all people with abilities regarding those management positions.

Of course this discussion in this form is an oversimplification (e.g. no mention of whether/how to run a police force, a judiciary, or a military), but the point is that not only a “government being run by workers” wouldn’t solve any problem, it would introduce even more, in my opinion. It’s just as bad as effectively letting the corporations or rich people run the government. Looks at the US

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There should be no power to the government. Only management positions. And those management positions need to be open to all people with abilities regarding those management positions.

Yo. You just described a worker run government.

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In theory it’s great, but have you seen the complete fucking braindead idiots we share this world with?

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In India we have a corporation named AMUL. It is collectively run by 3.6 Million farmers. It has wide variety of dairy products such as milk, yoghurt, ice cream, chocolates etc. If farmers can… Then what’s wrong in believing we can.

Edit, its not 5000, it is 3.6 Million milk producers

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No problem with that! That’s actually a great thing, in my opinion. The problem, however would be a government run by any specific group of people with any specific properties other than their abilities. Because otherwise it would inevitably lead to dictatorship, as it has been tried many times throughout the history.

In short:
corporations run by workers -> Good!
governments run specifically by workers/corporations/religious institutions/rich people/etc -> No, please no!

Everyone should be able to participate in running and managing our society.

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Companies, great! Government, horrible track record…

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You do realize that some of these idiots have way more power (money) than they should have any right to? Elon Musk, Bobby Kotick, …

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Elon is just an ultra autist, I don’t think he’s stupid if you make him do some engineering stuff.

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The problem is: intelligence doesn’t help either. Sure, it lets you grasp problems pretty fast, makes you a good learner but do you have any ideas how many psychopaths are actually gifted?

As an autistic individual, I‘d say the autistic way would be pretty awesome as a government. You have to tell the truth and are not allowed to care how anyone receives it (what could go wrong, right?). I‘m obviously joking, mostly. I‘d explore it though.

I think the current way is the worst (turning more populist every day) because the majority of people is rather unintelligent and does not have a logical concept on life (from an autistic standpoint).

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Say more about how the majority of people don’t have a logical concept of life from an autistic standpoint, I’m curious!

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