“We need to hold a referendum”
Get fucked.
We don’t hold referendums on building codes. We don’t ask neighborhoods to vote on whether restaurants should have to refrigerate meat.
“We need to hold a referendum”
Get fucked.
We don’t hold referendums on building codes. We don’t ask neighborhoods to vote on whether restaurants should have to refrigerate meat.
I think some people mistake consensus for democracy. Consensus is a a higher threshold of harmony, definitely something we should strive for and could achieve given sufficient organizational foundations. But a hierarchical profit-motivated company or even a hierarchical municipal institution are not that necessary foundation.
In a world of power disparity and ulterior motives, committing to improvements despite marginal criticisms is usually the right thing to do and usually the only way anything ever gets better.
They also ask different things. Democracy asks what the majority wants to do. Consensus asks what everyone can at least live with.