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What does a "workplace democracy" mean?
I'm envisioning that's the janitor having a vote in where the brain surgeon makes the next cut.
That's a possible interpretation of "the people control the means of production", but that's just ridiculous.
It means the janitor has a vote on how their duties are done
So..what if they decide their duties are brain surgery?
Like the nonsense a peer post to yours is spewing. From a person who's handle is "communist".
They could have reasonable points, but if your philosophy suggests that brain surgeons can get told what to do by janitors, that's a problem. I wouldn't call that "totalitarian". I would call that sane.
Now, what do we do about brain surgeons and the cost of healthcare (which is and will always be phenomenal, no matter who is paying and how it is being paid for)?
Are you being outrageous and arguing in bad faith on purpose?
I genuinely can't tell, in the event that you're not, nobody has ever suggested that janitors should be allowed to do the duties of brain surgeons. Furthermore, even if a single absolutely insane janitor decided he should be allowed to do the duties of a brain surgeon... nobody else would agree with them, because we live in a society with vaguely reasonable humans... and that janitor would likely be democratically FIRED for suggesting something so outrageous, or put in a mental institution.
Or are you worried about the janitor uprising in which janitors decide they can do all jobs known to man? Perhaps nothing can stop the janitor uprising, and we are all doomed.
At the very least, they'd keep the streets clean! I, for one, welcome our janitorial overlords.