>> it is so important that
the people control the means of production
> Technically speaking, Amazon’s shareholders are people too - they aren’t part of the government.
You left out a very important word from your quote of the GP that's critical to the GP's meaning. I quoted him more fully and emphasized the unquoted word, the, above.
The people != some random group of people who aren't part of the government. The people should be understood as all the people of the nation. "People," by itself, could be a small (or large) group of oligarchs. Those are very different things.
> Should we mandate that workers own 50% of every corporation?
> Decision making is going to be much harder as you have to poll the workers to get a majority vote.
Democracies have a lot of experience with representative bodies that can support faster decision-making while still having some accountability to the people. It's a straw-man to to present worker representation as being direct democracy for every decision.
> Technically speaking, Amazon’s shareholders are people too - they aren’t part of the government.
You left out a very important word from your quote of the GP that's critical to the GP's meaning. I quoted him more fully and emphasized the unquoted word, the, above.
The people != some random group of people who aren't part of the government. The people should be understood as all the people of the nation. "People," by itself, could be a small (or large) group of oligarchs. Those are very different things.
> Should we mandate that workers own 50% of every corporation?
> Decision making is going to be much harder as you have to poll the workers to get a majority vote.
Democracies have a lot of experience with representative bodies that can support faster decision-making while still having some accountability to the people. It's a straw-man to to present worker representation as being direct democracy for every decision.