(April 20, 2015 at 6:05 pm)francismjenkins Wrote: I'm not saying employee ownership is appropriate in all circumstances. I still think incentives are important, and I think in new tech start ups or innovation intensive companies, employee ownership may be inappropriate. Nonetheless, I think your objections really amount to an over generalization. How will disputes be handled, law enforcement, etc.? Well, how are they handled today? We imprison more people than every other nation on earth, and we have higher violent crime rates than most of our western counterparts. So let's begin by admitting that we don't do such a great job at this stuff. In Scandinavia, where they use restorative justice, they're actually closing prisons down. Not needed anymore.
So yeah, I reject your very reactionary slippery slope, OMG it's gonna be like that movie where all the police went away and chaos ensued (reminds of one of Bill Maher's hysterical fits of panic at the thought of anarchy and chaos, like that time he thought banning plastic might be a great idea, in reaction to that guy who printed a gun using a 3D printer)
And this how they keep their hooks in us, by prompting us to think in such absurd ways. Like your implicit assumption that any transition to a new system must involve the abrupt dismantling of the state and police forces, leaving us at the mercy of violent criminals. That's just ridiculous. There are many many ways we can transition towards a non-authoritarian society, and do so in a very smooth way.
Are you going to tell me how dispute resolutions work in your proposed system or not? You bypassed this and jumped to enforcement of dispute resolution outcomes arguing against claims that have not been made. Try again.
