I already expressed why I think that more democracy makes workplaces more ethical immediately after where I said that I think so. If you'd like me to expand on this: governments and large companies are more alike than you think. Both of them are huge power structures that control lots of people. And both are quite powerful - your job can have as much of an impact on your life as the government you live under. If unchecked, both devolve into a hierarchical tug-of-war between the interests of its higher and lower rungs. Democracy works against this to ideally create a more equalized power structure.
Now that I established these parallels, my question to you is - why do we as a society treat democracy as sacred and essential in one type of hierarchy but not another? Why don't any of your concerns apply to your government? For instance, would you live in a dictatorship if you got to avoid the difficult and annoying chores of going out to vote, informing yourself politically or listening to politicians endlessly bicker about things?
Your examples seem to just boil down to absurdism. They don't indicate what is so wrong with people voting on things in a company, they're just exaggerations to make the idea seem inherently ridiculous. Bakeries don't spend days arguing about whether they need to offer one of the most popular product variants for sale, and if someone did, this would in no way impede the customer's ability to just buy a loaf of bread thanks. But something like a tech co-op will spend time arguing about which risky investments, future moves and needed sacrifices they're willing to make, walking away from it knowing that this is what they agree is best for everyone. Which frankly seems a lot better than far-upper management decreeing that everyone must now do XYZ even if their only intention is to pump company valuations short-term without any regard for future stability. The fact that co-ops tend to be more stable seems to agree with that.
Now that I established these parallels, my question to you is - why do we as a society treat democracy as sacred and essential in one type of hierarchy but not another? Why don't any of your concerns apply to your government? For instance, would you live in a dictatorship if you got to avoid the difficult and annoying chores of going out to vote, informing yourself politically or listening to politicians endlessly bicker about things?
Your examples seem to just boil down to absurdism. They don't indicate what is so wrong with people voting on things in a company, they're just exaggerations to make the idea seem inherently ridiculous. Bakeries don't spend days arguing about whether they need to offer one of the most popular product variants for sale, and if someone did, this would in no way impede the customer's ability to just buy a loaf of bread thanks. But something like a tech co-op will spend time arguing about which risky investments, future moves and needed sacrifices they're willing to make, walking away from it knowing that this is what they agree is best for everyone. Which frankly seems a lot better than far-upper management decreeing that everyone must now do XYZ even if their only intention is to pump company valuations short-term without any regard for future stability. The fact that co-ops tend to be more stable seems to agree with that.