Some
people like hierarchy. That’s okay. Everyone has their kinks, and anything that
goes on between consenting adults is fine. It’s the consent part that bothers
me. I believe in institution building, but I worry about the power of “legal
people” over people. When the institution gets so big that the individuals
become abstractions. Roles, categories, functions, grades. Turning people into
numbers for memos to pass up to boardrooms. Particularly when the negotiating
power is lopsided, and on one side there is a person “speaking for the institution”
(be it a Country, Company or a The People). For markets and communities to
function well, there has to be full transparency and a sense of peers working
together. Otherwise it is just bullying. Using the fact that someone has
limited job opportunities or capital to incentivise them to do as they are
told.
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