This came into my inbox this morning and resonated:
"It has been a curious feature of democratic thought that it has not faced up to the private corporation as a peculiar organization in an ostensible democracy. Enormously large, rich in resources, the big corporations, we have seen, command more resources than do most government units. They can also, over a broad range, insist that government meet their demands, even if these demands run counter to those of citizens expressed through their polyarchal [rule by the many] controls. Moreover, they do not disqualify themselves from playing the partisan role of a citizen — for the corporation is legally a person. And they exercise unusual veto powers. They are on all these counts disproportionately powerful, we have seen. The large private corporation fits oddly into democratic theory and vision. Indeed, it does not fit."
| Charles Lindblom, Politics and Markets: The World’s Political-Economic Systems
Love the line “work culture absorbs all our time and only a fraction of our talents”. A good life surely needs the reverse of this. A chance to express our full capability and the time to do this in an unhurried way so that we enjoy the journey.
This came into my inbox this morning and resonated:
"It has been a curious feature of democratic thought that it has not faced up to the private corporation as a peculiar organization in an ostensible democracy. Enormously large, rich in resources, the big corporations, we have seen, command more resources than do most government units. They can also, over a broad range, insist that government meet their demands, even if these demands run counter to those of citizens expressed through their polyarchal [rule by the many] controls. Moreover, they do not disqualify themselves from playing the partisan role of a citizen — for the corporation is legally a person. And they exercise unusual veto powers. They are on all these counts disproportionately powerful, we have seen. The large private corporation fits oddly into democratic theory and vision. Indeed, it does not fit."
| Charles Lindblom, Politics and Markets: The World’s Political-Economic Systems
Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/workfutures/p/it-does-not-fit?r=4xbtf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Love the line “work culture absorbs all our time and only a fraction of our talents”. A good life surely needs the reverse of this. A chance to express our full capability and the time to do this in an unhurried way so that we enjoy the journey.