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n8agrin | 1 month ago

Sociocracy is a theory of governance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy

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lovich|1 month ago

I’m mildly familiar with the idea, but I was referencing this subset of the quoted sentence

> … and, like many democracies before us, we ultimately voted to abolish our own democracy …

The ellipses are intentional, if the fragments of the sentence before or after change how to interpret this, please let me know

mapmeld|1 month ago

The US example that I would give would be the Articles of Confederation being turned over and replaced with our Constitution.

In the article I read this to mean: they designed a power structure thinking it should be fully open and flat, like a company where everyone can do everything on GitHub. But once they had run the project for some time, they acknowledged that the decisions were flowing through the three people.