Inheritance over blank slates.

Technology must support the work of human politics, not replace it.

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“Every Cook Can Govern,” which imagines labor unions reviving ancient Greek direct democracy by appointing officeholders at random from the community.20 What would our politics look like, he asks, if we really believed that each of us has the right and ability to self-govern? What kinds of people could we cultivate if we held that trust in each oth

server power, executive power—that could operate on its own terms, not in service to any external commitments.

determinism—interpreting some device as single-handedly steering social outcomes and thereby denying the role of people in shaping their own cultures and power structures.

the legacy of cooperative business, which blends person-centric governance (one member, one vote) with market-based incentives (patronage dividends in proportion to participation).

“Reddit revolt,”

patriarchy mystifies technology, casting it as a domain beyond the possibility of comprehension for all but certain experts. Mystification hides the economics of accumulation that technologies serve, turning people’s attention to a marvelous innovation instead of the extraction it enables.