On "We Must Do More Than Call An Idea "Dumb"

[Fabio Cecin]

Every company structure, be it in whatever combination of "internal"
structure (managers or no managers) and "outer" structure (absentee
owners, present handful-of-owners or all-worker-owners a.k.a.
"cooperatives", of which there are several variants) all answer the
same question:

"As we are all Workers in a scarce-trade-competitive Legal-State
society that sees Work as the ultimate social good, how do we
organize?"

That question comes from a social worldview, which is an answer to
what a society is. They both have this central concept of "Work", and
hence "Worker".

Until "Work" and "Worker" are deconstructed, and *people* can get
together to do work, instead of *Workers* getting together to do
*Work*, all the surveillance bullshit and all the fear that comes with
it will keep coming back. You can externalize that surveillance in
chains of command, or you can have "peer to peer" workplaces where the
policing and the policed are one and the same. You can have a hybrid
topology where the "peering" is about supervising roles only, leaving
the supervising of capital to separate owners, or you can go "full
peer to peer" and force every "Worker" to do both role supervision (if
people are doing the roles) and if the executed roles are producing
money (as they are now all CEOs, board members and shareholders too).

This bullshit can even be reproduced if you are completely alone. You
can be a person working on something, or you can be a lone Worker on
their own Company doing Work. Suddenly you are wondering whether what
you are doing has any concrete, immediate, actionable value.
Congratulations: you have internalized the "boss" function!

Fabio